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Lance Corporal EDMUND HICKS SHEPHERD

Service Number: 5616622
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 May 1942

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

Coll. grave E. 17.

Malta

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Evelyn Shepherd, of Cornwood, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
Malta
Number of casualties: 2255
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