W.P. Kewley
Epithet: First World War airman
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Airman. 'No. 5727. Private. H.A.C. Artists O.T.C. (Honourable Artillery Company. Officer Training Corps). Joined Nov. 1915 Dec. 21 No. 4 Co. 2 Batt. (Battalion) H.A.C. 198 Worple Road Wimbledon. London S.C. Home July 9. 1916 Nov. 1916 Cadet Wing 5727. Hut 9. D. Squadron. R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps). Denham Camp. Denham. Bucks (Buckinghamshire) Apr. 2 Lieut. 7. R.Squad. R.F.C. Netheravon Salisbury Plain. Sept. 11. 1917 Severely (Dangerously) wounded. Skull fractured in St. Omer Hosp. Oct. 28 At Lady Inchcape's Hosp. 7 Seamore Place, Curzon St. Mayfair Nov. 1918 Lieut. W. P. Kewley (Lieutenant) 35 Squad. (Squadron) RAF. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Died later.' (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/9)
External sources: 3 Windsor Road; Selborne Road