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SHEPHERD, Clement Keith
Personal Details
| Service Number: | SX3475 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 27 May 1940, Wayville, SA |
| Last Rank: | Lance Bombardier |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Field Regiment |
| Born: | Kilkenny, South Australia, 8 November 1910 |
| Home Town: | Woodville, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Draper |
| Died: | Heart failure, blood poisoning after minor surgery, Lucindale, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lucindale Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 27 May 1940: | Involvement SX3475 | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 May 1940: | Enlisted Wayville, SA | |
| 27 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, SX3475, 2nd/4th Field Regiment | |
| 10 Dec 1945: | Discharged | |
| 10 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, SX3475, 2nd/4th Field Regiment |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by George Chaston Shepherd
In 1940 Keith and others he knew volunteered for the field Ambulance, IIFC he went to Egypt initially with the 2/4th Field Ambulance before moving to the 25lb guns. He served as a bombadier in Egypt, the Lebanon, Crete, Sri-Lanka, Balakpapan and New Guinea.
After the war he settled with his brother Gilbert in the Lucindale (S.A.) area where the brothers co-owned the local general store. After some years Keith took the Newsagency, Drapery and Savings Bank agency parts of the business to a newly built premises which he operated into his early 70s before retiring.
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