Thursday, June 12, 2014

Irene Shepherd died 2012

Harold Melville

IRENE SHEPHERD
nee MACFARLANE
WIFE OF HAROLD MELVILLE SHEPHERD
ENGINE DRIVER, NER
DIED 2012.
She was survived by her daughter, Joan, son, Stanley and four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Harold Melville who retired as a driver from the North-Eastern Railway, was
the son of George and Mabel Shepherd. He was born in 1915, died 26th November 1999 almost three months after his younger brother, Ivan
 passed away.
 Harold's body was recovered from the railway tracks at platform No. 1 at Lucknow's Charbagh Station and disposed of as unidentified. He was identified from GRP photographs three days later when the body had already been confined to the Gomti river at Pipra Ghat. It was after his younger brother's death that he said he suffered from a ringing in his years that could drive him to suicide. The Tinnitus-like symptoms were never checked. 
Irene was from the MacFarlane family of Hubli, south India. 

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