Army Number : 1394

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Basford, Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Julia Holmes Sheppard of 124, Hucknall Road, Carrington, Nottingham. He was a mechanic at Handley’s Clumber Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham 4th May 1911, went to France 28th February 1915 and was killed in a trench when a Lance Corporal of the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment was cleaning his rifle and accidentally discharged a bullet, which hit Private Sheppard. He died 6th March 1915, age 21.

Buried : Lancashire Cottage Cemetery, Belgium. Plot I. Row F. Grave 20.

Private Clarence William Tutbury Sheppard is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.