Richard Herbert Quirk
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Sapper. Royal Eng (Engineers). Former All Saints Choir Man. Enlisted away. Married At Warminster in May. & [later]. Home Sept. 12. Hand crushed. In 26 Division. due to go to Dardanelles Sept. 15 Sept. 27. Dec. 14 at Mrs Roberts. Bromley. Deganwy N. Wales At Aldershot. Corporal May 1917. Reported Killed July 1917. Died of wounds. Had been wounded 3 times before. Wife & 3 children in Liverpool Aug. 10. 1917.' Note: No. 65466. 154th Field Company (Royal Engineers). Died of wounds, 10 August 1917 according to roll-of-honour.com (Isle of Man database) (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 10003/12)
Lived at Selborne Drive