Menin Gate Memorial
Morpeth Herald 21/05/1915 carries a brief obituary:
Mrs Richardson, 5 Corporation Square, Morpeth, has received the following communication from Captain H.R. Smail, 7th Northumberland Fusiliers:- “It is with great regret that I have to inform you of the death of your son, Pte. J. Shepherd, No.1 Company, 7th N.F. He was in the first list posted as missing after the action on the 26th April, but his effects were handed in to headquarters on the 7th inst. from the burial party. I always found him a clean, well-behaved soldier. Please accept my deepest sympathy in your loss”. Pte. Shepherd was well known in Morpeth, and for five-and-a-half years before enlisting was with Messrs. J. Proctor and Co., grocers, Morpeth.
He is remembered at Morpeth on M17.01 M17.09 and M17.29 and in the Battalion History
