157375 Leslie Frederick SHEPPARD, DSO, Sudan Defence Force, Intelligence Corps, SOE: 30/12/1944

Personal Number: 157375
Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel
Name: Leslie Frederick 'Rufus' SHEPPARD
Unit: SOE


London Gazette : 10 July 1946
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/LondonGazette/37645.pdf
OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA, NOVEMBER, 1940—JULY, 1941
PART VI.
Operations.
Up to date it has been impossible to force a way up the Wolchefit Pass. Operations have been confined to assisting patriot forces already on the plateau. These consist of a force operat- ing from Bosa, commanded by Major Ringrose with onecompanyof3Ethiopian Battalionunder command. Nearer Gondar a party of patriots under el Bimbashi Sheppard came across from the Chelga direction and occupied Amba Giyorgis on the road Wolchefit-Gondar. The third party are the patriots who assisted in the capture of Debra Tabor under Major Douglas. These three parties, all of which vary daily in numbers, have been the only forces directly threatening Gondar since the fall of Debra Tabor and the withdrawal from Chelga.

Capture of Debarech.
By 28th May el Bimbashi Sheppard was occupying Amba Giyorgis and the whole road from inclusive Amba Giyorgis to exclusive Debarech was in patriot hands. Between 28th and 3ist May severe fighting in the Debarech area resulted in the capture of Debarech. The enemy suffered more than 400 killed and over 150 deserters. Three small forts to the west of Debarech were also captured and the enemy was penned into the tongue of land immedi- ately round the Wolchefit forts.

 

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LIEUTENANT COLONEL LESLIE FREDERICK SHEPPARD
Service Number: 157375
Regiment & Unit: Intelligence Corps
Date of Death: 30 December 1944
Age 39 years old
Buried or commemorated at PHALERON WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: 19. A. 11.
Location: Greece
Additional Info: Son of William and Florence Jane Sheppard, of Southampton. B.A. (Oxon.).
Personal Inscription: ALL HE HAD HOPED FOR ALL HE HAD, HE GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND, HIMSELF HE SCORNED TO SAVE

 

Recommendation for Award for Sheppard, Leslie Fredrick Rank: Bimbashi ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 373/29/143
Name Sheppard, Leslie Fredrick
Rank: Bimbashi
Regiment: Sudan Defence Force
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East: East Africa and Madagascar
Award: Distinguished Service Order
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 08 July 1943

 

See also:

• SOE - Sheppard, Leslie Frederick (Rufus)
• parent unit Intelligence Corps
  born 1905 Wroxall,Isle of Wight
  son of William and Florence Jane Sheppard,Southampton,Hampshire
  graduated Oxford University (B.A.)
  Professor of English,University of Egypt,Cairo 1935
  Ethiopian Army (Bimbashi)
  award D.S.O. (Abyssinia 1941)
  Force 133 SOE 1943
  in service of UNRRA,Greece (U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)
  killed by landmine Greece
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