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Private JOHN ERNEST SHEPHERD

Service Number: 68629
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Death

Died 08 May 1918

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRANTHAM CEMETERY

15. C. 14.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Second son of John and Margaret Shepherd. Born at Southbrook, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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GRANTHAM CEMETERY
Lincolnshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 118
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