John Alfred Turner
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. (3513 crossed out). Private. 48 T.R.B. (Training Reserve Battalion). Joined up Sept. 1917. S.S. & C.L.B. (Sunday School and Church Lads Brigade) E.Co. 48 T.R.B. 24 Hut. No 3 Camp. Prees Heath Whitchurch Salop. (Shropshire) Wounded. in ankle Fowcet Rd Hosp. Portsmouth Nov. 1918 No. 46535. 1/5 Y & L.R. (York and Lancaster Regiment), Clayton St. Aux. Hosp. East Lynn. Hants , Nov.1918 A. Co. Depot Pontefract.' (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 10003/14)
External sources: 27 Tynwald Street