Sidney Pickett
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 33772. Private. I.O.M Volunteers / 3rd Cheshire. Joined in the early summer. Home for father's funeral May. 1916 At Salonica. Returned under age. Dec. At Chester. Castle. Nov. 1917 moved to 11 Clarke St. 2/1 Monmouth R. (Regiment) Lowestoft M.G.C. (Machine Gun Corps) severely gassed. Sept 8. 1918. 3 Stat. Hosp. Louen Nov. (3 Stationary Hospital, Rouen) 1918. 146769 A. Co. 18 M.G.C. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force).' (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 10003/12)
External sources: 36 Tynwald Street; 11 Clarke Street