Five: Major T. Shepard, Lancashire Fusiliers, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Northamptonshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (Major); British War and Victory Medals (Major); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed; Volunteer Decoration, E.VII.R., hallmarks for London 1903, unnamed, complete with top bar, edge bruising to Jubilee, very fine and better (5) £200-240

Thomas Shepard was born in 1863, the second son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Shepard of Billing Road, Northampton. In July 1883 he was appointed Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Northampton Regiment, becoming Captain in 1889 , Honorary Major in 1900 and substantive Major in 1901. In 1903 he was awarded the Volunteer Decoration and retired from the Volunteers the following year. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he re-offered his services and was appointed Major with the 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, going with them to France in February 1915. He was later appointed draft conducting officer attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers at Hull, whence he conducted drafts to France. His war was touched with tragedy in losing two of his sons in the war. Post-war he was in charge of a disabled officers’ home at Putney. Major Shepard died in May 1937. Sold with copied obituary and photograph.