Walter Royston
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Lieutenant. 6 Liverpool Regt. (Regiment). T.F. First joined R.A.M.C. (Royal Army Medical Corps). Transferred to 2/6 K.L.R. (Kings Liverpool Regiment) as 2nd Lieut. At Blackpool in Oct. Reported Nov. 27. Dec. promoted to Lieut. In charge of Machine Gun. At Margate Mar. 11. British Expeditionary Force May 12. Was about Hill 60 for 2 months. Home ill with Sciatica end of July. Dec. 6 “Larkfield” Hoylake. Cheshire. May 31 in Machine Gun Corps in Grantham Home July 8. Nov. 1916 Home prior to going to the front. Nov. 1917 15.6 M.G.Co (Machine Gun Company) Egyptian Exp. Force. Home Nov. 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 10003/13)
External sources: Hermitage, Peel Road