Herbert Kewley
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 19084. Private. 1 East Lancashire Regt. (Regiment). Barrack Street Class & Club. Left in Feb. Reported then & March 26. Address of Mrs. Vogwell 2 Percy Terrace. Lipson. Plymouth Moved to 2 Dalton Street June 7 Home June 12. Off to Dardanelles. No France Aug 22. Nov. 30 As above Scouts Sect. (Section) B. Exp. Force (British Expeditionary Force). Letter after in Spring Wounded in battle of the Somme. Letter. Ward 4B. Beaufort War Hosp. Bristol Nov. 1916 10 Platoon. Y. Co. 11 E. Lancs (East Lancashire) B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) April 1917 as before. Wounded & missing on Mar. 8. Apr. a prisoner at Minden Letter. Gefangenenlager Minden (Westphalia) Block II Room 7. Co.3. Oct.1917 Barrack 51A. Soltau in Hannover Germany Arrived home Dec.14 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 10003/9)
Lived at North Quay; 2 Dalton Street