A.E. Kelly
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 15702. Private. A. Co. 9. Shropshire L.I. (Light Infantry). Very shifty fellow. Always begging Reported Nov. 23 Mar. at 69 Brush Rd. Pembroke Dock. Home in June. begged money for food on way back . Sept. 8 Dec 6. No 4 Camp. Press (sic - actually Prees) Heath. Whitchurch. Salop. (Shropshire). In France May 1916. Oct. 1916. No. 1702 ? A.Co. 7. Shropshire L.I B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) Apr 1917 wounded in right hand by shrapnel. Home Oct. Moved to Cambrian Place . 1 Co. K.S.L.I. (King's Shropshire Light Infantry) Hut 4. Golden Hill Camp, Pembroke Dock Missing Mar.24. 1918 Prisoner of War. No. news. Nov.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 10003/8)
External sources: 30 Barrack Street