Joseph Gale
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Solidier. 'No. 72187. Gunner. R.G.A.(Royal Garrison Artillery). Left early in 1916 June 6. As above. C. Sub. Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich. Home August November. Shoemakers shop. R.G.A.(Royal Garrison Artillery) Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich. Home once 1916. April 1917 c/o Y.M.C.A, Dukes Lodge Hut, Avington Park, Winchester. November 1917 2/1 Kent H.B. (Royal Garrison Artillery), Mundesley-on-Sea, Norfolk. Went to France unexpectedly end of June 1918. Killed by shell September 2, 1918 124 Heavy Battery.' (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 10003/7)
External sources: 17 Hanover Street