Shep's Place Family Tree

6th Field Artillery Brigade - 18th Battery
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Regimental Number: 8381
Name: Shepherd, Eric John
Rank: Gunner
Age: 21
Trade or calling: Student
Married or Single: S.
Address at Date of Enrolment: Same as next of kin
Next of Kin and Address: Mrs Ida Elizabeth Shepherd, mother, Penola-road, Mount Gambier, S.A.
Religion: Meth.
Date of Joining: 7.9.15
AMF Unit Serving in at Date of Enrolment:
Pay:
Before Embarkation:
Rate per Diem: 5s 0d
Date to which paid: 11.8.16
After Embarkation:
Daily Rate excluding Deferred Pay: 5s 0d
Allotment in Australia per Diem: 3s 0d
Net Rate not including Allowances or Deferred Pay: 2s 0d
Daily rate of Deferred Pay only Issuable on Completion of Service with Expeditionary Force: 1s 0d

6th Army Brigade, Australian Field Artilery, 18th Battery
Sergeant Albert Marshall Cocker
Sergeant Dorie Dudley Bradbury
Corporal Eric John Shepherd
Gunner Lancelot Carthew

On 14th September 1917 at Zillebeke the 18th Battery position was heavily shelled from 3 pm to 4.30 pm with 5" and 8" ‎[shells]‎. At 3.35 pm an ammunition dump alongside No. 1 gun was hit and it and the gun pit caught fire. These men, on Lieut. Dodd calling for a party, rushed out of the shelter trench in the face of heavy fire and, with water from the adjacent shell holes, succeeded in putting it out. Later the pit was again hit and it and the ammunition and an adjacent pit caught fire. These men again went out with Lieut. Dodd in the face of the shelling and succeeded in saving the guns and ammunition. They displayed great gallantry and determination in the face of very considerable danger.
Forwarded and recommended
‎[signed]‎ William Napier
Brig.Gen.
G.O.C., R.A. 1st ANZAC.

4 Military Medals Awarded
‎(Sgd.)‎ W.R. Birdwood
Lieut. General
Commanding A. & N.Z. Army Corps.
21/9/1917