South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 8 March 1952
Sandhurst Graduate Twenty-One Years Old
Michael Robert Shephard, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Shephard, of 48, Park Road, Conisbrough, has been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery after a two years’ course at Sandhurst.
His passing-out parade, which was to have been held on February 7th, was cancelled owing to the King’s death the previous day. This cancellation was a big disappointment to his parents as they had planned to attend the parade, and had, in fact, got as far as Brighton before they heard the news.
Lieut. Shephard is now home on “commissioning” leave before returning to Larkhill, near Salisbury, where he is to undertake a six months’ course with the R.A. For the first 10 weeks of his Army career Lieut. Shephard was at Oswestry. He then spent two months at the Mons Officer Cadet School before being accepted for training at Sandhurst.
An old boy of Mexborough Grammar School, Lieut. Shephard studied architecture at Durham University before joining the Army, in which he now proposes to make his career. He is a member of Sheffield Philharmonic Society and a former Boy Scout of Conisbrough Parish Church troop.
His father is a wages clerk at Manvers Main Colliery.