Ernest S. Howe
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 2674. Private. A Co. 9 King's Liverpool R. (Regiment). In Nov. at Southport. Dec. Y.M.C.A. (Young Mens Christian Association) Blackpool. Reported Jan. 9. later at Tonbridge (sic) Wells. Mar. 13. at Southampton en route for France Wounded about May 8. In hospital Liverpool May. Letters etc. Large septic wound in arm. slight wounds in thigh. Letters etc June 7. Home June 24. M. (Military) Hospital at Preston Aug. 2 .23. Sept. 27 at Weeton Camp. Dec. 14. Machine Gun Sect. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Haversack etc riddled by bullets.. Letters. Address May. Machine Gunner E.S.H. (E.S.Howe) 9 K.L.R Machine Gun Corps. 165 Brigade 55. Div. B.E.F. Wounded Sept. At Huddersfield. Home. Address Oct. 21. Machine Gunner E S Howe 22591 No 3 Sect. 165. Brigade Machine Gun Co. France Wrong. No 1 R.D.C. (Royal Defence Corps) Harrowby Camp. Lincolnshire . Apr 1917 D.6 Mess. (Kitchen) as above Oct. 22591. B.Lines. Light. Duty Co. Harrowby. Camp. Grantham . Nov. 1917. Central Messing Stores C.30 Harrowby Camp. Married Sept 1918. Nov. 1918 Discharged at Horn Hall. Stanhope. Durham. Convalescent Home.' (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)
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