William J. Cowley
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 33781. Private. H. Co. (Company) 3rd Cheshire. Barrack St (Street) Class & Club. A rather delicate lad. Reported June 16. Aug. 25. Doing well. Dec. 6 Bidston Camp. Birkenhead. At Blundelsands May 1916 Nov. 1916. School of Signalling Blundelsands. Oct. 1917. Signaller 9 Cheshire. Signal. H.Q. Co. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) Nov. 9 Corps. Signal School B.E.F. Wounded. Apr. 15. 1918 Gunshot in left elbow Ward 20 Mil. Hosp. (Military Hospital) Nottingham Nov. 1918 No 2 St. Vincent's Ward. No 2 N. Gen. Hosp. (Northern General Hospital) Becketts Park. Leeds.' Note: previous regiment given as I.O.M. Volunteers (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: 21 Barrack Street