Alex E. Lewthwaite
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No. 5721. R.N. (Royal Navy). Old S.S. (Sunday School) boy . Son of former. joining R.N. June 1917 Nov.1917 3 Mess (boys) H.M.S. Impregnable Devonport. Nov. 1918 No. 73215 J. Mess J. (Junior Mess) H.M.S. Ramillies 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 10003/10)
External sources: 5 Princes Street