Joseph Stanley Sproat
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 387049. Sapper. R. Monmouth Eng. (Royal Monmouth Engineers). Joined about Nov. Furlough at Christmas. Jan. 18 at the Camp Monmouth Reported Mar. 16. then British Expeditionary Force. Reported in I.O.M. Times in July. Sept. 27. At Dardanelles. Dec. 14. No5 Siege Co. (Company). Med. Exp. Force (Mediterranean Expeditionary Force). Nov. 1916 4 Sect. (Section). 5 Siege Co. Egypt Exp. Force. (Egyptian Expeditionary Force). Wounded. Gunshot in back. In 43 Stat. Hosp. (Stationary Hospital). Kilo 151 El Arish Egypt. Nov. 1917, 4 Sect. 5 Field Co. 74 Div. (Division). R.M.E. (Royal Monmouth Engineers), E.E.F. (Egyptian Expeditionary Force). Oct. 1918 R.E. details General Base Depot. EEF Nov. 1918 No details.' (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 10003/13)
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