W.H. Sayle
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 11918. Sapper. R. (Royal) Engineers. Nov. in hospital at Aldershot. Dec. 4M. Block R.E. (Royal Engineers). Stanhope Lines. Reported Mar. 16. June 7. Aug. 28 Dec. 14. No.1 [Whalles] Shop. B. Co. (Company) Training Depot. R.E. (Royal Engineers). Aldershot. Nov. 1916 Transferred to R. Mon. Eng. (Royal Monmouth Engineers). No.8203. 6 Siege Co. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). April 1917. as before. Oct. 1916 38.8302 II Cpl (Corporal). as before Died of Pneumonia after Influenza Nov. 3 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 10003/13)
External sources: 9 Hope Street