22nd September 1915
Announcement Date: 22/09/1915
“The chief failing here is the language. I never heard anything like it but I suppose it’s a soldier’s privilege. I have heard of people ‘swearing like a trooper’ but I never fully realized what that was like before.”
Len Shepard – Letter 6 – Trentham Military Camp, N.Z.
Read full letter here.
Photograph: Surnames written on reverse by Len Shepard, cross referenced with those embarking as 8th Otago Infantry Reinforcements with Len on 13/11/1915.
[4th Row L-R] Ernest Thomas Sandford 8/3394, George Groves 8/3279, – , Arthur William Spragg 15/145, – , – , (Williams)
[3rd Row L-R] George Osborne Merrick 8/3354, Albert James Hargest 8/3285, – , (Gerkin), – , Arthur Leonard Shepard 8/3400, James Brown 8/3195
[2nd Row L-R] Albert Edward Dare 8/3231, Robert Whytock McKechnie 8/3331, (Millar), Alfred James Whyte 8/3148, Albert Edward Bagrie 8/3179, (Farquarhson), – , Ernest Archie Edmiston 8/3247
[1st Row L-R] John Thomas Kendall 8/3304, (Evans), John Rarity 8/3384, Albert Michael Page 8/3378, – , Patrick Clarken 8/3216, Ernest Vincent Medland 8/3351
Image
Arthur Leonard Shepard Collection [Invercargill City Libraries & Archives: Accession ICD85]