| Description | File of ephemera relating to Shepard's service on the front in France and Italy, including: receipts; a recommendation for supplies sent to headquarters and returned approved; a diagram of [trench?] observation post exchanges [near Vermelles?] as of August 1917; a page of narrative written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting on action by the 105 Siege Battery at Chat Maigre [south of Arras] on 5 April 1917, for which 6 men received medals; a page of lyrics to popular songs of the era, annotated "War Songs 1914/1918" in biro; and programmes for a play performed at Christmas 1918 and a concert given in mid-January 1919 by the 172nd Heavy Siege Battery. |