Cyril Corlett
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Private. Inns of Court O.T.C. (Officer Training Corps). All Saints Bible Class. Left July 12th. Brother of Roy. Reported Sept. 27 at Berkhampstead. Dec. 14 32 Victoria Rd. Berkhampstead. Herts. Getting commission in Somerset Yeo.(Yeomanry) May. 1916 2nd Lieut. 26 North. Fus. Home June 6. to go to Newcastle. Nov 1916. D. Co. 4 Entrenching Batt. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). 2nd Tyneside Scottish North. Fus: B E F. Apl 1917. Very severely wounded. Oct. 1917. Somerville. Oxford. Dec. Home Nov. 1918 1 H.L.I. (Highland Light Infantry) att(attached) Yorkshire R (Regiment). 1 Syren. 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 10003/4)
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