Richard Gregg
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 28599. 16 Kings Liverpool Regiment, Manx Co., 3 Cheshire Regiment. Barrack Street Class and Club. Reported May. Father lost in Goliath. At New Bunnee, Hoylake. Been home June 7. Mother very ill August. August 25 well. November 29 at Bidston Camp, Birkenhead. At Salonika May November 1916 Lance Corporal Manx Co., 2 Cheshire Regiment Salonika. Mother died October 1916. As before April 1917. Enquire of Aunt, Mrs Griffin, 7 Summer Hill Grove. October 1 Co. 1 Platoon 2 Cheshire Regiment Britiish Convalescent Camp, Corfu. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Wounded April 15 1918. Prisoner in Bulgaria June. Home December.' (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: 1 Hanover Place