Percy Shimmin
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Lance. Corp. (Lance Corporal). Joined Army Aug. 1917. Nov. 1917 c/o Mrs Weights 285 Plungington Road. Preston Nov. 1918 as before.' (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: 3 Hill Street