Roy F. 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 Cyril. Reported Sept. 27 at Berkhampstead. Dec. 14 L. Corp. (Lance Corporal) 32 Victoria Rd. as above. Getting commission in North Fus. (Fusiliers) May 1916 2nd Lieut. 3/5 Yorks L. I. (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Home June 6. 1916 Nov. 2. Kings Own Y.L.I. B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Missing after battle of Nov.13. Prisoner of War. Oct 1917. Offizier Gefangenenlager. Schwarmstedt Germany Home Jan. 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 10003/4)
External sources: Alexander Terrace