William Shimmin
Epithet: Soldier in the Scots Guards
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Castletown
Biography: William Shimmin of Port St Mary had, prior to the First World War, worked variously as a postman on the Isle of Man and in Liverpool, and had latterly been a steward with the Edler-Dempster shipping line. Upon the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the Scots Guards, and served with the 2nd battalion in France. He was killed in action on 18 May 1915, during the Battle of Festubert. His body was subsequently found and buried, but his grave was lost in later fighting, and he is now remembered on the Le Touret memorial to the missing. (Image ref: PG/13743/38).
Gender: Male