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SHEPHERD, Arthur Claude
| Service Number: | 2223 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Norwood, South Australia, Australia, 15 August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | 3 December 1968, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2223, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2223, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 14 Jun 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, 2223, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Vice Farmer | |
| 16 Jun 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Was transferred from the 1st Light Horse Regiment to the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. | |
| 23 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Rejoined regiment from hospital. Egypt. | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Trooper, 2223 | |
| 11 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2223, Was transferred to hospital for a disease and then later discharged from the army. | |
| 19 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2223, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Embarked at Kantara for Australia. |
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Early Life
Arthur Claude Shepherd was born in Norwood, South Australia, Australia on the 16th Aug 1896 to his parents Arthur Edmond Shepherd and Emma Tarrant Shepherd. Arthur lived in Norwood with his parents and his two younger siblings. Before going to war Arthur worked on a farm to earn money. When Arthur went to war, his brother was only 6 years old. In Arthur's spare time he played football and followed the Norwood Football Club.
In 1914 World War 1 began and later Arthur enlisted on the 27/11/1915.
Service
On enlistment Arthur was put into the 1st Light Horse Regiment and was given the rank, private. Private was the lowest rank and meant that Arthur did not have control over anyone. It is not clear when Arthur first embarked overseas but we do know he embarked to Kantara which is now known as El Qantara. In El Qantara Arthur trained with the rest of the 1st Light Horse Regiment. Then on the 16th March 1916, Arthur was put into the 3rd Light Horse Regiment as the rank private. When in El Qantara Arthur at once joined his regiment in defending the Nile valley from pro-Turkish Senussi Arabs.
But on the 12th October, 1916 Arthur had to leave the war early because he had to go to hospital due to an illness. Arthur came out on the 23rd October 1916. In November Arthur and his regiment joined allied forces advance across the Sinai and then after fighting to secure the Turkish outposts on the Palestine frontier involving in the wars the Battle of Magdhaba on the 23rd December 1916 and the Battle of Rafa on the 9th January 1917. Arthur then went on to fight in the Second Battle of Gaza on the 19th April 1917 but was later was sent to hospital but then was transferred from that hospital to a different one probably because they could not deal with the disease he had, inflamed connective tissue, a common connective tissue disease caused by long-distance marching and pour foot protection.
On the 19th September 1917 Arthur was taken out of hospital to fight along the Mediterranean coast this was a part of the final British attack. The whole ANZAC Mounted Division was there and fought together and, on the 30th October 1918, Turkey surrendered. 12 days after that fight World War One ended and the Triple Entente had won. On the 11th of March 1919 after a few months of celebrating the victory, Arthur caught a disease and had to go to hospital. Arthur and the rest of the 3rd Light Horse regiment were discharged from the army on the 11th March 1919 and later embarked back to Australia from El Qantara on the 19th of March 1919.
Later on, in life Arthur married a lady names Amy Inez Cooper and together they had one child.
Arthur was rewarded three medals in total. One theses medals were the 1914-1915-star medal which was awarded to soldiers who fought in specified theatres of war between 1914 and 1915 and had their name, service number, and unit curved into it around the edges.
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