experiences in Greece and the Greek people who had assisted Allied troops at great personal risk. He was "over-joyed" to hear of the liberation of Greece in October but his "optimism ... turned to despair" as he witnessed the British campaign, under Churchill, to crush the Greek republican resistance and reinstall the monarchy. In April 1945 he accepted an offer to return to Greece as head of a team of volunteers from the Australian Red Cross working for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) while retaining his position in the Australian Army's Reserve of Army Officers. Sheppard was the UNRRA's Officer in Charge of refugee camps at Florina, Kozani and Sidhirokastron. In the first six months, he helped 15,000 refugees, but he found the camps places of "desperation, destitution and horror", that the UNRRA was only "half tackling the problem of Displaced Persons, with no resettlement or retraining program" in place, and that the Royalist government in Athens was pinning a "communist" label on any republican, liberal or democrat refugee and treating them appallingly. When his services with the refugees were no longer needed, he was made Officer in Charge of the UNRRA Northern Greece clothing programmes. He distributed food and clothing. Finding that UNRRA food relief supplies were often not being distributed by the government but hoarded in warehouses (in order to increase the government's power over the population by using hunger as a weapon), on one occasion he demonstrated his belief in direct action by "smashing open a warehouse and distributing food to hungry peasants". He came across the Pavlo Milas Artillery Barracks which was used as a "concentration camp for left-wing political prisoners" and tried to improve the conditions of the inmates there. He regularly reported his findings to senior British and Greek officials. He came to believe that Greece in that period was becoming a "police state" under martial law. In July 1948 he was appointed Director of the Northern Greek Office of the British Economic Mission. His role required him to spend British funds to repair roads and other infrastructure, assist in reviving various Greek industries, and to support orphanages and schools. He also continued to assist political prisoners, attend trials being held under the Emergency Measures Acts recently passed by the Greek government, and support the activities of trade unionists. All the while he would regularly report abuses to E. H. Peck,