W.W. Halsall
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No number given. Trooper. No.1 Troop D Squadron Sussex Yeomanry. Former S.S. (Sunday School) boy etc. Joined before the War. Reported twice in March. Brother in A.S.C.M.T. (Army Service Corps Motor Transport) (May). Address The Hattery, Hoath Farm, nr Canterbury. May 10 in Hospital. Horse fell and rolled over him. Reported September 10. Has received Commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/5 The Buffs. Letter September 1918. At Sevenoaks. December 6, 2/5 The Buffs, The Priory, Tonbridge, Kent.' November 1916 Drill Hall, Ashford, Kent. November 1917, 78 Hamilton Road, Reading, Berkshire. November 1918, Normanhurst, Orpington, Kent.' (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 10003/7)
External sources: 10 Belmont Terrace