JEANNE+SHEPLEY

CWGC: Jeanne Shepley, W/3500 Volunteer, Auxiliary Territorial Service, formerly Women’s Transport Service.  Died 18 th October 1939, Aged 25.  Commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Panel 23, Column 1. Daughter of John Thorpe Shepley and Lillie Emily Shepley, of Holmesfield, Derbyshire. Jeanne drowned when the ship SS Yorkshire was torpedoed off Gibraltar by the German submarine U37.