William Edward Gale
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No number given. Sergeant. 5 Wiltshire R. Sergeant Major of C.L.B. (Church Lads Brigade) At Woking in October. Tedworth in November. Had aigue Furlough on January 13. Reported March 1. May 24. Gone to Dardanelles August 13. Wounded on August 10. At Ward 4A, Ducie Street Hospital, Manchester. August 28. At Auxiliary Military Hospital, Baptist School, Chorlton cum Hardy. Badly wounded with shrapnel in side and back. September 8 Reported from Mr. Bancroft. October 2 Home. December 14 Depot Devizes Wiltshire. In Birmingham in Hospital May. In France Aug. Wounded September. 2B Ward, 2nd Birmingham War Hospital. Been Home. November 1916. Sergeants Mess, Wiltshire R. Depot, Devizes E Company 1st Wiltshire Regiment Sergeants Mess Command Depot Sutton Coalfield Birmingham April 1917. Discharged.' (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)
Lived at Lower Church Street