Walter Fitzgerald Sheppard, Flying Officer

Royal Canadian Air Force
Kerrobert, Saskatchewan
Died: December 17, 1943
Commemorated at Cambridge City Cemetery, England

Walter Fitzgerald Sheppard was born December 15, 1914, at Calgary, Alberta. Walter and his family moved to Kerrobert, Saskatchewan about 1915, where Walter completed his junior matriculation at Kerrobert High School in 1932. While a student, Walter joined the 18th Canadian Light Horse as a Trooper (Trumpeter). On July 20, 1940, Walter enlisted at Sherbrooke, Quebec, and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War as a Flying Officer (Air Navigator). On December 17, 1943, Walter Fitzgerald Sheppard died after his Lancaster aircraft crashed near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, after encountering heavy fog while returning from air operations over Berlin, Germany.