 Upon Sheppard's retirement, Oke's great-great grandson, Captain Robert Carl Sheppard (1897–1954), filled the keeper position (1924–1939).Capt.Sheppard was a veteran of the WW1 campaign in Turkey, serving from 19 y of age with The First Five Hundred of the Newfoundland Regiment in the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli and was later wounded in the Battle of the Somme (Beaumont-Hamel, France).