Edward Castel Cowley
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 21484. Private. 16 Cheshire R (Regiment). Joined Birkenhead Bantams. about January. Address. Y.M.C.A. Canterbury Rd. Rock Ferry Birkenhead Called June (16) Aug(.25) Sept. 8. no news Said to have been in hospital. Brother of Mrs. Dougherty. Wounded July 1916. Nov. 11 Cheshire R. B.E.F (British Expeditionary Force) Apr. 1917 as above. Oct. 1917. 12 Platoon J. Co. 15 Cheshire R. Wounded. Mar 28 1918 Gunshot wounds in face & abdomen: in 2 Aust. Hosp. (Austalian Hospital). Moved to Hope St.' (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 10003/5)
External sources: 10 Barrack Street