Harry Gribbin
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 1920 S. Stoker. R.N. Division.(Royal Naval Division) At Antwerp in October. December at Blandford, Dorset. Reported January 16. February 26 gone to Egypt? At Dardanelles 2 Platoon A. Co. Anson Battalion, 2 R.N. Brigade. British Expeditionary Force. G.P.O.London. Wounded May 21 and returned to Duty. Again wounded badly in leg June 28. Reported September 27 back at Dardanelles. December 14 R.N.D.(Royal Naval Division) Base, Mustapha camp, Alexandria, Egypt. November 1917, 22 Mess H.M.S.Ajax. G.P.O.London. November 1918 as before.' (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 10003/7)
External sources: 20 St Georges Walk