P.C. Christian
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No. 110. Sapper. R. Naval. Div. (Royal Naval Division) Engineers Sect. 4 Signal Co. (Company). Formerly Lieut. (Lieutenent). C.L.B. (Church Lads Brigade). Enlisted January Letter Feb. 9. Then at 1 Runnymeade Telegraph Road. Walmer Address Mar. 30 Sect. 4 Signal Co. R.N. Div. (Div. Eng.) Expeditionary Force. G.P.O. London Letter received end of April Called May 11. (out) Wounded & returned to duty. Reported June 28. Letter Aug. 24. Various letters. In France summer of 1916. Nov. 6. 1916 Sect. 2 Sig. Co. 63 R.N.Div. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Apr.17 No 207484. R.E. H.Q. Signal Co. 63 R. N. Div. B.E.F. In England ill. Home Nov. 1917 T.S.O. 331 Draft. Hitchen Signal Depot. R.E. Herts. later 331 Draft (I.S.O.) R.E. Signals Base Depot. Mesipotamia Exp. (Expeditionary) Force. Oct.1918 R.E.Signals (I.S.O.) c/o A.D.Telegraphs Basrah. M.E.F. (Mesipotamian Expeditionary Force).' (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 10003/3)
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