Family Group:

Pair: Corporal H. Sheppard, Royal Berkshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (20146 Cpl. H. Sheppard. R. Berks R.) together with tops of boxes of issue with complete but separated labels, mounted as worn, good very fine

One: Attributed to David R. Sheppard, Air Raid Precautions
Defence Medal 1939-45; together with two Safe Driver Medals, one a 5 year award with clasps, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956; the other a 10 year award with top brooch bar ‘1957’, and additional riband and top brooch bar ‘15 Consecutive Years, 1962’, very fine and better (5) £40-50

Henry Sheppard was born in Wanborough, Berkshire, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 29 December 1914. He served during the Great War with the 2nd/4th Battalion on the Western Front; was wounded; and was discharged on 15 July 1918 (entitled to a Silver War Badge). He died in Newbury, Berkshire, in 1957.

Sold together with the recipient’s cloth covered Army Small Book, including pasted-in Army Form B 2078 Mounted Infantry Certificate.

David R. Sheppard was a lorry driver for Berkshire County Council in 1939 and a member of the ARP during the Second World War. He joined the Postal Service as postman in Newbury in 1947.