Herbert Douglas's Story.
The Birkenhead News. Saturday, September 21, 1918
Rock Ferry Soldier Killed.
Another well-known Rock Ferry soldier who has made the great sacrifice for freedom is Lance Corporal Herbert Douglas Corris, whose wife and two children reside at 18 Lees Avenue. She has received the distressing news that's her husband who was in the East Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action on August 26. He was 31 years of age and enlisted in the Royal Engineers in June 1916. Later he was transferred to the Tyneside Scottish, and went to France in December 1916, eventually being drafted to the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was the fifth son of Mr Corris, Medway Road who has now three sons and two stepsons serving with the colours. The deceased soldier was particularly well known and respected and was employed at Port Sunlight as a journeyman brick setter. He had served for some years prior to the outbreak of war in the first volunteer battalion Cheshire Regiment, as his father did for many years. Every sympathy from a wide circle of friends will go to the widow and children and his parents and family in the great loss they have sustained.
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