W.H. Shimmin
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 13764. Private. T.R.B. Reported Nov. 1917. 217 Inf. Battn. (Infantry Battalion). Room 1. Block R. C. Co. (Company). New Barracks. Fermoy Co. Cork Nov. 1918 No details.' (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: 7 Myrtle Street