Four: Musician A.E. Sheppard, Royal Marine Band, 1914-15 Star (R.M.B., Mus.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.B., Mus.); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal, silver, unnamed as issued, last very fine, others nearly extremely fine, mounted Court-style as worn (4)

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Four: Musician A.E. Sheppard, Royal Marine Band, 1914-15 Star (R.M.B., Mus.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.B., Mus.); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal, silver, unnamed as issued, last very fine, others nearly extremely fine, mounted Court-style as worn (4)

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Musician Albert Ernest Sheppard was born at Gosport, Hampshire in 1874 and joined the Royal Marine Band Service at the Royal Naval School of Music, Eastney in 1904, having previously served for five years in the Royal Navy. He subsequently served aboard H.M.S. Euryalus in the Messina Earthquake Operations of 1909 and during the Great War served on the Battleships Dominion and Revenge. Sheppard was pensioned from the R.M.B.S. in 1921.