J. Albert Craine
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. T/2/015769. Driver. A.S.C. (Army Service Corps) Former S.S. (Sunday School) boy and communicant. In Oct. at Aldershot. Later Strathfieldsaye House. Mortimer. Reading. Reported Nov. 9. In Dec. Church.Hill House Hants (Hampshire) Furlough at Christmas. In Hospital Jan. 11. Home in Feb. (father died) Reported Mar. 5. also letter. 20 Divisional Train 160 Co. A.S.C. May 31 on Salisbury Plain Aug. 20 In Hospital Had been at. 14 Australian Lines. Rollestone Salisbury Plain Dec. 6. 142 Co. A.S.C. 16 Divisional Train. Blackdown Camp. Farnborough Hants. Nov. moved. no address. Badly gassed March 21. 1918. Discharged July. V (Very) ill at 3 Nelson St. Married. Died as result of gas. Dec. 8. 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 10003/5)
External sources: 3 Peel Road