Graham Shepard

Graham Howard Shepard (1907–20 September 1943)[1] was an English illustrator and cartoonist.

He was the son of Ernest H. Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows.

[2] At Marlborough he was a member of the college's secret 'Society of Amici'[3] where he found himself a contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, and a close friend of Louis MacNeice.

Lieutenant Shepard was lost along with all but one crew member when their ship, HMS Polyanthus, was sunk by the German submarine U-952 in the mid-Atlantic on 21 September 1943.

In fact, the only known survivor of Polyanthus also drowned on the morning of 23 September when another German submarine, U-666, sank HMS Itchen, the ship that had rescued him.