D.K. Kneale
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 120844. Sapper. R.H.M.C / R.E (Royal Engineers). Barrack Sreet Class & Club. Enlisted in Barrow. Reported June 21 by Cecil Bowden. Address Nov. 26 cf Liverpool Mobile Hospital A.P.O.S II B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Changed to R.E. (Royal Engineers) now at Chorlton. June 23. Nov. 1916 9 Field Co. B.E.F. April 1917 as before. Badly hurt by explosion of buried bomb. Home. Oct. 1917 No.4 Room 30 Co. Elphinstone Barracks. Plymouth. Nov. 30 Co. Penlee Point. Cawsand Cornwall Married to Nellie Corlett Jan. 10 1918 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 10003/10)
External sources: 24 St George's Walk