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| Private Arthur Duncan WOOLLEY (41072) | |
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2nd Battalion Essex Regiment Date of birth: 18th June 1896 Date of death: 1st May 1918 Died aged 21 Unknown |
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| Arthur Duncan Woolley was born at Westcott in Surrey on the 18th of June 1896 the son of the Reverend Alfred Duncan Woolley, Rector of Weston Patrick, and Grace Constance (nee Boyd) Woolley of the Rectory, Weston Patrick, Winchfield in Hampshire. He was christened by his father at Holy Trinity Church, Westcott on the 25th of July 1896. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Olds House from September 1910 to April 1914. He enlisted into the army at Mill Hill in North London as Private 25956 in the Norfolk Regiment on the 29th of February 1916. At the time he was living at 3 Mount Road in Hendon and was learning to fly. It was recorded that he stood 5 feet 11 and a half inches in height. He was called up for training on the 29th of May 1916, was posted to the Norfolk Regiment Base Depot on the 24th of October 1916. He embarked for France on the 26th of October 1916 where he transferred to the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment on the 4th of November 1916. He returned from France on the 5th of January 1917 and served in England until he was discharged from the army on the 11th of March 1917 due to illness. He died from tuberculosis of the lungs and larynx at Bournemouth the following year. He is not commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as he was not in the army at the time of his death. |
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