Robert Joseph Kelly
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 33735. Private. I.O.M. Volunteers / H. Co. 3 Cheshire R. (Regiment). Ill treats wife who fell on fire in fit. v. badly burned. Reported . Mar. Apr. May. June 10 - Aug.25. Wife still in Hospital. Nov.30 joined 3 Cheshire . At Bidston Camp France .1st Cheshire . June 1916 Wounded Oct. 1916 in right ankle 26 Gen. Hosp. (General Hospital) Etaples Oct. 1916. 1 Cheshire R. 30 Hut K.Co. 6 Convalescent Depot. A.P.O.S.11. (Army Post Office S11) B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) Mar.1917. C. Co. 12 Platoon .1 Ches. R. B.E.F . Nov. 1917. 3 Scottish Gen. Hospital Ward 11. Dot (Hut?). B. Glasgow. Home Xmas 1917 Communicated. Wounded for 4th time .May. 1918. Died at Boulogne May. 12. 1918.' Note: Died, aged 35 according to roll-of-honour.com (Isle of Man database). (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: 28 Barrack Street