(24 Aug. 1892-15 Sept. 1916), soldier. (M. L. Shepherd, Louis Shepherd) Born at Moose Creek, Ont. Parents: George W. Shepherd and his wife by his first marriage, Emily Mary Lemieux. He was educated at the public school and high school, Alexandria. Interested in a military career, he joined the 59th Regiment before WWI, and went overseas with the 21st Battalion, leaving Canada in May 1915. On active service at the front from Sept. 1915, he was killed in action in France, at age of 24, in the Courcelette region during the Battle of the Somme, having by this time achieved the rank of major. An anonymous and horrifying eyewitness description of his death and of the battle in which he was killed was published in the Glengarry News, 17 Nov. 1916. He was one of GC’s highest ranking casualties in the war. He was the brother of Pearl Shepherd and half-brother of Louis and George Shepherd.

Glengarry News 22 Sept. 1916, repr. Cornwall Freeholder & Cornwall Standard both 28 Sept. 1916 * Boss. 60, 253 * Lieut. M.L. Shepherd, and 59th Regt., 21st Battalion, GN 30 Oct. & 6 Nov. 1914