W. Edward Simpson
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'Stoker. H.M.S. Snaefell. Barrack Street Class & Club. Married. Brother of R.C. Reported Jan. 9. Furlough Mar. 16 Home for a day May 31 June 14. Ship supposed to be gone to the Dardanelles. Letter Apr. Nov. 1916 Greaser. as above Apr 1917 as before Oct. 1917 as before Nov. 1918. Ship had been torpedoed S.S. Fairhead. c/o Gordon Smith Seaman's Institute Paradise Street. Liverpool.' (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: 1 Barrack Street