Edward Ean Gorry
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 54651. Private. 5 Kings Liverpool Regiment. Rejected several times. Passed in June 1916. Married 3 children. Filled up papers July 25 1916. £1-3-0 allowance. November 1916 Machine Gun Corps. M.G.C.Base Depot. S/8 A.P.O (Army Post Office) B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Nov. 1917 No 3 Sect. 11th M.G.Co. B.E.F. Died of wounds at 13 General Hospital, France March 28 1918.' (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 10003/7)
External sources: 17 Tynwald Street; 12 South Quay