Leslie Frederick Sheppard

In memoriam

Lieutenant Colonel L.F. Sheppard, DSO. Intelligence Corps 30th. December 1944 Age 39 All he had hoped for All, he had he gave To save mankind. Himself he scorned to save D.S.O. = Distinguished Service Order

Son of William and Florence Jane Sheppard, Southampton, Hampshire Graduated Oxford University (B.A.) Professor of English, University of Egypt, Cairo 1935 Ethiopian Army (Bimbashi) Award D.S.O. (Abyssinia 1941) Force 133 SOE 1943 In service of UNRRA, Greece (U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), as the SOE’s (Special Operations Executive) Liaison Officer Killed by a landmine, Greece

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