Images and extra information courtesy of Roxanne. Born: 1886, Ipswich. Died: 15th July 1916: age 30; KiA. Residence: 49, Bramford Road, Ipswich. Enlistment Location: London. Rank: Sapper; Service Number: 18122 Regiment: Royal Engineers, 9th Field Company. Date of Entry Therein: 10th August 1915 – France. Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & […]
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ALFRED CHARLES NOEL WORBY
Images and extra information courtesy of Roxanne. Born: 1893, All Saints, Ipswich. Died: 12th October 1917; age 24; KiA. Residence: 55, Bramford Road, Ipswich. Enlistment Location: Ipswich. Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 40447 Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 8th Battalion. Formerly 3992, R. H. A. Medals Awarded: Victory & British War. Memorial Reference: […]
THOMAS JAMES WOOLLARD
Born: 1876; All Saints, Ipswich. Residence: Cranham, Essex. Died: 10th July 1916; age 40; Died of Wounds at No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, from wounds received on the 3rd July in the great advance. Enlistment Location: Warley, Essex. Service: Arrived in France on the 2nd September 1915. Wounded during the Battle of Albert […]
ARTHUR WOOLLARD
Born: Monks Eleigh, Suffolk. Died: 20th July 1916; KiA. Residence: 32, Great Whip Street, Ipswich. Enlistment Location: Ipswich, Suffolk. Date of Entry Therein: 19th January 1915 – France. Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 5830 Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion. Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 […]
WILFRED HAROLD WOODS
HARRY Born: 10th April 1892, Ipswich. Died: 28th May 1918; age 26; KiA. Residence: 38, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich. Employed: in the Civil Engineering Department with Great Eastern Railway, Ipswich. Harry had joined the company at Ipswich, 7th March 1910; first as a General Labourer, before being transferred to Signal Fitter’s Labourer in February 1915. […]
THOMAS GEORGE WOODS
image from 1917 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper Born: 1888, Hemingstone, Suffolk. Died: 29th March 1917; age 29; Died of Wounds – No. 48 Casualty Clearing Station. Wounded in action – 28th March 1917. Residence: 20, Waveney Road, Ipswich. Enlistment Location: Ipswich. Rank: Private; Service Number: 40362 Regiment: Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion. Formerly […]
RUSSELL CLARK WOODS
Image From 1915 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper. Born: 1884, St. Helen’s, Ipswich. Died: 6th September 1915; age 31; At Sea – Dardanelles – Appendicitis. Had served out in the East five/six weeks. Employed: Clerk to the Ipswich Board of Guardians, having been in their employ since he was a boy. Enlistment Location: Ipswich. […]
ROBERT WILLIAM WOODS
Image from 1917 Suffolk Chronical & Mercury newspaper. Born: 1888, All Saints, Ipswich. Died: 30th November 1917; age 29; KiA. Re-Enlistment Location: Ipswich. Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 22578 Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion. Medals Awarded: Victory & British War. Grave Reference: Panel 4. Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Relatives Notified & […]
ROBERT BERTIE WOODS
BERT Bert is not remembered on the war memorial at Christchurch Park. Born: 2nd January 1888, 8, Siloam Place, St. Clement’s, Ipswich. Died: 7th June 1917; age 29; KiA at Messines. Residence: Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Employed: as a Soap Maker at Lever Brother’s Sunlight Soap Factory. Enlistment Location: Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Date of Entry Therein: […]
JOHN WOODS
Born: Ipswich. Died on or since: 8th May 1915; KiA.( no age given) Date of Entry Therein: 16th January 1915 – France. Rank: Private; Service Number: 7379 Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion. Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star. Grave Reference: Panel 21. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. […]