Stanley was the son of Edward and Vina Shepley.  The family moved to Windsor where he went to school at Holy Rosary and W.D. Lowe. 

He enlisted in the army and was assigned to the Essex Scottish, and went overseas.  Stanley spent two years training for Operation Jubilee.  A Private McDermott told the family about Shepley’s final moments.  “At approximately 07:25 hours, I was lying in position over the top of a row of barbed wire.  Private Shepley was passing over me when he was shot through the stomach by machine gun fire.  I tried to move him, but he was tangled in the wire.  I continued to advance.  Turning around, I saw a mortar shell explode which killed him.  His body was beyond recognition.”  Shepley is remembered on the Brookwood Memorial in England, and on the honour rolls at Holy Rosary and W.D. Lowe.

Stanley was KIA Aug 29 1942 at Dieppe.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources

Bill Siddall, Historian

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