Alec Connall
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'H.M S. Highflyer. R.N.R. (Royal Naval Reserve). At Tenerife in Oct. Reported Mar. 21. At sinking of Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Address. No. 6 Mess. H.M.S. Highflyer G.P.O London Dec. 14. "The Flats". Nov. 1916 as above Moved to 3 Peel Rd Jan. 12 H.M.A. Djerissa G.P.O. London. Home May 1917 Family moved to 12? Dukes Rd Conval in Hospital May 23. for hernia. Nov. 1917 Letter. S.S. Aylestone c/o Mssrs. Marini Brichetto. Steamship Agents. Genoa Italy.' (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 10003/4)
External sources: 4 Cumberland Terrace; 3 Peel Road