Pair: Able Seaman S. G. Sheppard, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, taken Prisoner of War during the German Spring Offensive on 24 March 1918

British War and Victory Medals (R.420 S. G. Sheppard. A.B. R.N.V.R.), in relic of named card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Sidney George Sheppard was born in Leicester in 1884 and was mobilised for service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 8 September 1917. Drafted for the British Expeditionary Force on 4 February 1918, he joined the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division on 19 February 1918. He was taken Prisoner of War on 24 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive, and was held at Kriegsgefangenen-Kommandantur, Wahn, Limburg-an-der-Lahn and at Gefangenlager, Parchim in Mecklenburg. He was repatriated on the cessation of hostilities, and arrived back at Dover on 29 November 1918. He was demobilised on 10 April 1919 and died in 1958.