W.H. Oates
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'H.M.S. Ben my chree? Was first on "Duke of Cornwall". Then as above now on H.M.S. "Viking" Reported Mar. 9. May 31 Said to have left Navy to have been on S.S. "Princess Caroline" torpedoed early in Aug. On Fenella. Sept. 27.' (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: 36 Demesne Road