Members of the Quaye family were joined by members of Jurby Church for a remembrance service for Robert Alfred ’Bertie’ Quaye, who was killed in action in the Great War, on May 10, 1917.

The Reverend Iaen Skidmore officiated at the short ceremony.

Mr Quaye is one of four men from the parish commemorated on the Jurby War Memorial.

Born 1891, the oldest of nine children of farm worker Robert Quaye and his wife Eleanor (nee Forsythe), Bertie left Jurby to find work when he left school at 14 to work on farms around the island.

He was working on a farm near Douglas before emigrating to Australia in 1911 to find work.

He enlisted for war service in July 1916.

After eight months of training and travelling back to England for further training he first saw action in April 1917.

After just 30 days of action in the 1st and 2nd Battles of Bullecourt, he was among the thousands of soldiers from the Australian divisions who died.

A small exhibition marking the centenary of his death was displayed inside the church, collated by Sandra Kerrison, who said: ’Bertie’s life typified that of so many who thought of Jurby as their home at the time, most having been forced to leave the parish, or the island, or to emigrate to find work.’