Leo Wilson
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. ?. Quarter Master Sergeant. A.S.C. (Army Service Corps). Bank clerk. Enlisted early. Oct. at Aldershot. Reported Nov.30 Dec. at 47 St. Clements Rd. Boscombe Bournemouth. Jan 11 Furlough. Feb.27. May (11) Brother of Douglas . At Romford. Now Aldershot.June 18 Home July 5. (Father's funeral) . Dec. 14. B. Co. 26 Div. Train B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Wanted Commission . Col. (Colonel) won't let him go Nov. 1917 2nd Lieut (2nd Lieutenant). Room 504. Hotel Metropole St Annes nr Blackpool . Discharged & in China Nov. 1918.' (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: 1 Woodside Terrace