Ernest Walsh
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. T.S/5493 (crossed out) 37813. Saddler. A.S.C. (Army Service Corps). Left about January. All.Saints Bell ringer etc. C.L.B (Church Lads Brigade) Went to Woolwich . Reported Mar.16. A little later in 30S Co. 4th Army Troop Training C. Square, Aldershot. Later moved. to C Reserve. Park Royal. London N.W. Frequent letters Home July. Corporal? Pc.(parcel) Sept. 14. Co. 31D 36 Reserve Park Nov. 30 4 Co. A.S.C. Transferred to Machine Gun Corps . At Grantham May. Home on final leave.June 1 Nov. 1916 71 Co. Machine Gun Sect. B.E F (British Expeditionary Force) Apl 1917 as before. Oct. 1917 home. as before.' (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 10003/14)
External sources: 31 Tynwald Street