Albert Edward Shepherd

This biography was written by Victoria Doran who has done an excellent job of bringing to life an interesting man who is not recorded on the Grange Hill War Memorial or on the Hoylake and West Kirby News’s 1922 list, but whose Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstone is visible in St. Bridget’s Church Yard in West Kirby.

ALBERT EDWARD SHEPHERD 

Bert’s Grave in St. Bridget’s Church Yard in West Kirby

When Albert Edward Shepherd’s War Grave marker was first found in St Bridget’s Church Yard, it seemed likely that he was someone who had died in a hospital facility in the area and just happened to be buried there. For what was an Australian Munitions Worker doing in West Kirby? He is not recorded on the Grange Hill War Memorial or any other Memorial in the area.