Malvern College First World War Casualty

Lieutenant Commander Harding Lilford Shephard

Photo of Harding Lilford Shephard
House and time at Malvern: No 5, 1892 - 1894.

Regiment: H. M. S. Viknor.
Died: 14 January 1915 aged 33 in Sea off County Donegal. Drowned on H.M.S. Viknor.
Cemetery: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 7

Son of Lieut. Col. C. S. Shephard, D.S.O., and Mrs. A. K. Shephard, Osmington, Weymouth, b. 1882.
Ill—Lower IV.
Husband of May Shephard, of 27, Hill St., Knightsbridge, London.
H.M.S. Britannia 1895-97; R.N. 1897; Lieutenant-Commander 1914.

H.M.S. Viknor is thought to have struck a German naval mine on 13th January 1915 and sank with all hands in heavy seas off Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland.
Wikipedia article on H.M.S. Viknor

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