Albert Alfred Karran
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 20687. Private. 14 Royal Scots. Enlisted in February. Reported Feb. 15. Address. Weymouth. Reported May 14. . Later at Hawick. Home Aug. 14 France Oct Dec. 10. B Co. 13 R. Scots (Royal Scots) Brit. Exp. Force (British Expeditionary Force). Ill. in Hosp. Apr. Met Maddrell. Hospital June 1 Blown up by shell in Feb. Not wounded, but badly bruised. dumb for days deaf for 6 weeks. Home end of July not fully recovered. Severely wounded Oct. 26. Died of wounds Oct. 31.' Note: Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives date of death as 28 October 1916. (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: Burleigh Cottage