Notes
All additional information and this short biography are supplied thanks to the research of the Blackpool Grammar School Old Boys: 'He attended Roseacre Primary School, and came to the Grammar School from 1931 until 1937, when he left to become a clerk. He was the son of Joseph and Ann Shepherd of Scarsdale Avenue. He became a Flight Sergeant (Observer) (No 1053539) in the RAF, serving with a highly respected No 106 Squadron flying Lancasters out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, later to lead the famous Dam Busters raid. He was killed in action on Wednesday 12th August 1942, aged 23, and is buried in the Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany.'