W.S. Shimmin
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'H.M.T. (His Majesty's Transport). Reported Nov. 1917 H.M.T. The Emperor E.612. c/o Moulin & Co. St. Sampson Guernsey Dec. 1918 as before c/o J.T. Thomas. Shipbrokers Newport.' (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 10003/13)
External sources: 22 Athol Street