| Description | File of letters directly related to Shepard's service in the Royal Garrison Artillery in World War I: a letter from "'Erb" [a friend and fellow officer, from the context wounded on the Western Front and sent to England to recover], 2 letters from Major D'Arcy J. Richards [the commanding officer of 105 Siege Battery, wounded early in the morning of 23 April 1917, upon which Shepard took command of the battery and won the MC for his gallantry that night], a letter from Mrs. P. Murphy, thanking him his letter informing him of her husband [Sgt. P. Murphy]'s death, and a postcard from [an Italian comrade-in-arms of Shepard's?] |