George Ennett
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 4119. Private. 3 Border Reg. (Regiment). No news in No. (sic) In Dec. A. Co. (Company) etc British Expeditionary Force Reported Jan. 18 Parcel sent & letter received. Feb. 26. Said to have lost regiment Brother of Alf. and Wm.. Had frostbite in Jan. In I.O.M. Times May 22 reported wounded in Back, neck & thigh: in. No 13 General Hospital Boulogne . Is his number 4199? Reported May 24 . In R.W.Sussex Hosp. (Royal West Sussex Hospital) Chichester. May 29. At Dardanelles. Sept.27 Nov. 30 1 Border R. D Co. 16 Platoon 87 Brigade 29 Division Med. Exp. Force (Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) Wounded Sept. .Nov. 1916 D Co. 16 Platoon .1 Border. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) As before Apr 1917 .Nov 1917 as before 14 Platoon. Wounded in right shoulder. In Hosp. at Portsmouth . Apr 1918 Nov.1918 No 160090, 252 M.G.C. (Machine Gun Corps) No1 Sect. (Section) Symon Forces, N. Russian Exp 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 10003/6)
External sources: 45 Athol Street