Flight Sergeant Shepherd was serving with 156 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Lancaster I W4895 GT- which took off fromWarboys on a mission to Berlin. The aircraft crashed at Döberitz killing all the crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943. W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3