John Charles Lynchey
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Private. 3 Cheshire R. (Regiment) (NOTE - I.O.M. Volunteers crossed out). Reported June 16 . Aug. 4 at Castletown. Before at Cornah. Dec. 10. H. Co. Bidston Camp. Birkenhead. Family moved Oct-1916 . France. Wounded Dec. 1916 Family are at Manchester. Killed May 9. 1917' Note: Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows date of death as 8 May 1917. (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 10003/10)
External sources: 22 Shaw's Brow