Walter James Gilmour

Epithet: First World War sailor

Record type: First World War Biographies

Town / Village residence: Douglas

Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No number given. Stoker - Greaser. H.M.S.Snaefell. Reported December. Had hurt hand in machinery June (7) per home June 16. Well August 25. ? At Dardanelles. November 30 well. Moved 31 Barrack Street June 14. November 1916 as before. April 1917 as before . November 1917 as before. November 1918 after ship was torpedoed. Works in town.' (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: 31A Barrack Street; Back Princes Street

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