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Second Lieutenant LEWIS CHARLES BURFORD SHEPPARD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

Date of Death

Died 21 April 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. K. 36.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and 3rd Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Sheppard, of "Undercliffe," Shaldon, Teignmouth, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription GRANT HIM LORD ETERNAL REST WITH THE SPIRITS OF THE BLEST
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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