Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant H. Shephard, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (68096 Whlr: Sjt: H. Shephard, R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (68096 Whlr: S.Sjt: H. Shephard. R.F.A.) edge nicks to first, nearly very fine and better (2) £120-£160

Harry Shephard was born in Portsmouth in 1868 and attested for the Royal Artillery on 26 July 1888. Posted to the R.F.A. Ammunition Column as Corporal Wheeler 12 October 1899, he served in South Africa from 4 November 1899 to 4 July 1901. His Army Service Record notes the award of the L.S.G.C. Medal with gratuity in 1907 and states that he fractured his left fibula that same year.