Edward Patterson
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'Boy. R.N. (Royal Navy). H.M.S. Powerful. Son of Mrs Caley. Recently joined Navy from Everton Industrial School. Reported Aug. 4. Home for Xmas. Called. Dec. 24. H.M.S. Impregnable. Devonport Oct. 1916 Boy Telegraphist Mess. 2. H.M.S. P.31 G.P.O. London Apr. 1917. as before Oct. 1917 14 Shaw's Brow. as before but "Ordinary Telegraphist" Nov. 1918 G.2 Ward Naval Hosp Haslar Gosport.' (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 10003/12)
External sources: Hardy's Cottages