Educated at Colombo and at the Middlesex Hospital, he took postgraduate courses in Birmingham and at University College Hospital, London. He served on the staff of the General Hospital Colombo, and died in Ceylon in or before 1957.

Born at Capetown on 3 May 1905 son of Walter Bissell Sheppard, an Australian who was a rubber planter in Java, and Irene Melvill his wife, a South African, he was taken by his parents to Java and then to Australia, where he was educated at Scotch College, Perth. He entered University College Hospita