Alfred Bell

Epithet: First World War soldier

Record type: First World War Biographies

Town / Village residence: Douglas

Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 13781. Private. 2 Co. 4 King's Liverpool Reg't. Married daughter of Mrs Cowin of 2 Barrack St. 3 children. Tramway Conductor in Liverpool. Enlisted early. At Seaforth Nov.1914 Furlough Nov.23. Beach Rd. School. Dec. Battalion went to France Mar.10 Wounded Mar.15 slightly in thigh. Home Mar.30 May 18 at Sniggery Huts. Hightown [Lancashire] expecting to go to front. June 16 at Pembroke Dock. Aug.25. Wife gone across to say 'goodbye'. Ill in Hospital in Oct. Dec.6 No 33630 attached 3 Cheshire R. Gamblins Laird St. Birkenhead Nov. 1916 H.Q. 9 Cheshire R. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) Oct.1917 H.Q. 9 Cheshire B.E.F. Nov. 1918 ? Bor Lynfeld (Cyngfeld?)Hosp Shrewsbury.' (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 10003/1)

External sources: 2 Barrack Street

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