Lieutenant.
Graham Howard Shepard
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Polyanthus
Polyanthus was ordered to rescue the crew from the escort HMCS St. Croix, recently sunk by U-305. Whilst under the command of Lieutenant John Gordon Aitken RNR, Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using a GNAT before any rescue could be effected.At least 7 officers and 77 crew were lost with Polyanthus among them Lt Graham Shepard. The only known survivor drowned within days at the hands of another U-boat attack on the ship that rescued him, HMS Itchen.
Graham Shepard was the only son of Florence Chaplin and Ernest Shepard, better known as E.H. Shepard, the famous illustrator of Winnie the Pooh, Wind in the Willows, and known for his war sketches when he himself served in WW1. It was 'Growler', Graham's childhood teddy bear, that was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Educated at Marlborough College and Lincoln College, Oxford, Graham followed in his father's footsteps, as did his sister Mary, who illustrated Mary Poppins, and became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the Illustrated London News.
Lt Graham Howard Shepard is memorialized on his mother's tombstone, at Christ Church Churchyard, Shamley Green, Surrey. Graham's father, E. H. Sheppard , is also memorialized on the same tombstone, although he is buried at St Peter Churchyard in West Sussex, England.
Graham Howard Shepard
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Polyanthus
Polyanthus was ordered to rescue the crew from the escort HMCS St. Croix, recently sunk by U-305. Whilst under the command of Lieutenant John Gordon Aitken RNR, Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using a GNAT before any rescue could be effected.At least 7 officers and 77 crew were lost with Polyanthus among them Lt Graham Shepard. The only known survivor drowned within days at the hands of another U-boat attack on the ship that rescued him, HMS Itchen.
Graham Shepard was the only son of Florence Chaplin and Ernest Shepard, better known as E.H. Shepard, the famous illustrator of Winnie the Pooh, Wind in the Willows, and known for his war sketches when he himself served in WW1. It was 'Growler', Graham's childhood teddy bear, that was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Educated at Marlborough College and Lincoln College, Oxford, Graham followed in his father's footsteps, as did his sister Mary, who illustrated Mary Poppins, and became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the Illustrated London News.
Lt Graham Howard Shepard is memorialized on his mother's tombstone, at Christ Church Churchyard, Shamley Green, Surrey. Graham's father, E. H. Sheppard , is also memorialized on the same tombstone, although he is buried at St Peter Churchyard in West Sussex, England.
Lieutenant.
Graham Howard Shepard
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Polyanthus
Polyanthus was ordered to rescue the crew from the escort HMCS St. Croix, recently sunk by U-305. Whilst under the command of Lieutenant John Gordon Aitken RNR, Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using a GNAT before any rescue could be effected.At least 7 officers and 77 crew were lost with Polyanthus among them Lt Graham Shepard. The only known survivor drowned within days at the hands of another U-boat attack on the ship that rescued him, HMS Itchen.
Graham Shepard was the only son of Florence Chaplin and Ernest Shepard, better known as E.H. Shepard, the famous illustrator of Winnie the Pooh, Wind in the Willows, and known for his war sketches when he himself served in WW1. It was 'Growler', Graham's childhood teddy bear, that was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Educated at Marlborough College and Lincoln College, Oxford, Graham followed in his father's footsteps, as did his sister Mary, who illustrated Mary Poppins, and became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the Illustrated London News.
Lt Graham Howard Shepard is memorialized on his mother's tombstone, at Christ Church Churchyard, Shamley Green, Surrey. Graham's father, E. H. Sheppard , is also memorialized on the same tombstone, although he is buried at St Peter Churchyard in West Sussex, England.
Graham Howard Shepard
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Polyanthus
Polyanthus was ordered to rescue the crew from the escort HMCS St. Croix, recently sunk by U-305. Whilst under the command of Lieutenant John Gordon Aitken RNR, Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using a GNAT before any rescue could be effected.At least 7 officers and 77 crew were lost with Polyanthus among them Lt Graham Shepard. The only known survivor drowned within days at the hands of another U-boat attack on the ship that rescued him, HMS Itchen.
Graham Shepard was the only son of Florence Chaplin and Ernest Shepard, better known as E.H. Shepard, the famous illustrator of Winnie the Pooh, Wind in the Willows, and known for his war sketches when he himself served in WW1. It was 'Growler', Graham's childhood teddy bear, that was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Educated at Marlborough College and Lincoln College, Oxford, Graham followed in his father's footsteps, as did his sister Mary, who illustrated Mary Poppins, and became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the Illustrated London News.
Lt Graham Howard Shepard is memorialized on his mother's tombstone, at Christ Church Churchyard, Shamley Green, Surrey. Graham's father, E. H. Sheppard , is also memorialized on the same tombstone, although he is buried at St Peter Churchyard in West Sussex, England.
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1943
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Shepard G. H.
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