Thomas Gelling
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No number given. E.R., H.M.S. Blake. Ex. Choir boy. Reported May 24. Enlisted in R.N.(Royal Navy) May 31. !st Class P.O.(Petty Officer)(Mechanic). Home July 31. To Join H.M.S.Blake in the North Sea. August 20 well. October 5 well. December 14. Mess 28. Home in August (Sister died) October (Father died). Moved to 8, Circular Road May. Home May 1916. November as before. April 1917 as before. Married Miss Midgley 1916. Child Baptized August 1917. November 1917. H.M.S. Greenwich c/o A.M.O. (Administrative Medical Officer)Inverness. November 1918. Mess 28. H.M.S.Blake G.P.O.London.' (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 10003/7)
External sources: 17 Head Road