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Wilfred Cameron SHEPHERD
1914 Wilfred Shepherd
Wilfred Cameron SHEPHERD  ‎(I4870)‎
Given Names: Wilfred Cameron
Surname: SHEPHERD

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 13 January 1893 42 32 -- Blinman, South Australia, Australia
Death: 28 January 1973 ‎(Age 80)‎ -- Repatriation Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia


Personal Facts and Details
Birth 13 January 1893 42 32 Blinman, South Australia, Australia

Marriage Elizabeth Vera Beth STRAUSS - ‎[View Family ‎(F1699)‎‎]
25 March 1919 ‎(Age 26)‎ Flinders Street Baptist Church, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


Hide Details Note: Wilfred Cameron, Bachelor, Builder ‎(Discharged Soldier)‎ of Wilpena Terrace, Kilkenny, son of Henry Shepherd married Elizabeth Vera Strauss 26, born Drake NSW, Spinster, Home Duties, of 22 Park Terrace Parkside, daughter of John Bernard Peter Strauss on the 25th March 1919 at Flinders Street Baptist Church. Witnesses were William O. May, farmer of Semaphore Road, Semaphore and Alma M. Strauss, Home Duties, of 22 Park Terrace, Parkside ‎[Beth's sister]‎.
Ethel and Edgar Horwood gave a reception for the bride and groom at their home.

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: Wilfred was born at Blinman, but soon afterwards his family moved to Semaphore where he and his younger brother Edmund were constant companions. Together they attended school at Le Fevre Penninsula.

The boys were taught to swim by being thrown off the Semaphore jetty.

When Wilf finished school, he was apprenticed as a carpenter and joiner. He worked on many buildings in the Port Adelaide area.

On 28 August 1916 Wilf enlisted in the 43rd Australian Infantry Forces, and sailed by ship S.S. Berrima on 16 December 1916. He first saw action in France in September 1917 and was badly gassed in June 1918; consequently, he was sent to Harefield Hospital in London for convalescence. On 12 October 1918 Wilf returned to Australia, first landing in Melbourne.

Wilf had previously met Beth Strauss in 1916 when she stayed with the Shepherds en route from Sydney to Perth. Beth had met Wilf's brother Frank in Tenterfield, where her grandpaents lived; and he had given her an invitation to visit his parents. Beth and Wilf became engaged before he left for Europe. While he was away, Beth stayed in Adelaide with Wilf's sister Ethel Horwood. She helped Ethel in the home and studied shorthand and typing at the School of Mines on North Terrace.

Wilf had studied architecture before the war, but did not finish the course. He and his brother Leo were in partnership: Shepherd Brothers Builders and Contracters of Westbourne Park. Some of his work took him to the far north of the state and to the Northern Territory.

During the difficult times of the Depression, Wilf worked at home making joinery, and then applied for work as a commerical traveller for Walter & Morris Ltd. One of his jobs was measuring and ordering all the quantities for the timber in the new Parliament House on North Terrace, which was completed in 1936,

Wilfred had a keen interest in sport. The wider Shepherd family enjoyed regular games of tennis together. He and Beth were keen workers in the Black Forest Baptist Church.

Wilfred enjoyed the outdoor life and the beauties of nature. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather.

Name Note

Note: Wilf's middle name Cameron was the maiden name of his mother's step-mother, Jessie Hay Cameron, who married John P. Buttfield.
Death 28 January 1973 ‎(Age 80)‎ Repatriation Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia

Burial 30 January 1973 ‎(2 days after death)‎ Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, South Australia, Australia

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Parents Family  (F11)
Henry SHEPHERD
1850 - 1930
Florence Clara BUTTFIELD
1860 - 1935
Arthur Buttfield SHEPHERD
1877 - 1949
Ethel Eliza Buttfield SHEPHERD
1879 - 1976
Florence Carey Carey SHEPHERD
1880 - 1889
Rupert Henry Eustace Rupe SHEPHERD
1881 - 1915
Clement John Marsom Clem SHEPHERD
1883 - 1956
Frank Gerald Lancelot SHEPHERD
1886 - 1957
Leonard Victor Albert Leo SHEPHERD
1887 - 1925
Lily Harriette SHEPHERD
1890 - 1982
Wilfred Cameron SHEPHERD
1893 - 1973
Edmund Payne SHEPHERD
1894 - 1972

Immediate Family  (F1699)
Elizabeth Vera Beth STRAUSS
1892 - 1977
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