Orlando Watson SHEPPARD was born in November of 1892 to William David SHEPPARD & his second wife, Eliza Tallulah BOYKIN . He drowned the 6th of October 1918 when HMS Otranto sank in the Irish Sea near the Scottish Isle of Islay, where he may have been buried initially in the Kilchoman Military Cemetery, Scotland. He was finally interred in the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood,
Surrey, England
Surrey, England
Orlando Watson SHEPPARD was born in November of 1892 to William David SHEPPARD & his second wife, Eliza Tallulah BOYKIN . He drowned the 6th of October 1918 when HMS Otranto sank in the Irish Sea near the Scottish Isle of Islay, where he may have been buried initially in the Kilchoman Military Cemetery, Scotland. He was finally interred in the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood,
Surrey, England
Surrey, England
Inscription
Cenotaph inscription:
Serving His County Lost on U.S.S. Otranto Buried in Scotland Son of W. D. & Lula
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Records on Ancestry
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UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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Georgia, U.S., World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
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1910 United States Federal Census
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