Albert Cleator
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 4146. Sergeant. 2 Border Regt. (Regiment). Reservist. Member of Barrack Class & Club. Sent to front fairly soon. In Jan. home with frost bite At the Front again Mar. 25. British Expeditionary Force Wounded in right hand at Richebourg in May. In Dacie Avenue General Hospital Manchester Called. May. 22. Brother of M. & Herb. In Basford House. Seymoor Grove Old Trafford. May 29 . Home end of June. Reported Aug. 10 at Shoeburyness. Nov. 27 B.E.F. again. Had been reduced for treating recruits. promoted again. Nov. 29. 11 Platoon D. Co. (Company). B.E.F. Wounded at Battle of the Somme Nov. 1916 Blackwell Sanatorium nr. Bromsgrove Worcestershire. Apr.1917 Nov. 1917 Sergeants' Mess Knowsley Camp. Prescott.' (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)
External sources: 9 Well Road Hill