Woodfield, Frederick William

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM& ANNIE WOODFIELD. ARMY ADDRESS -26 ARUNDLE STREET. NO CWGC RECORD OF DEATH.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FREDERICK WILLIAM WOODIFIELD 33117. Born 1898, the eldest of three children and only son of John and Annie Woodifield of 34 Kent Street, Holderness Road, Hull. Frederick was a Box Cutter by trade but enlisted aged just 18 on 4th October 1916. He was badly injured during the fighting for Oppy Wood and evacuated to 30th Casualty Clearing Station at Aubigny where he died of wounds on 29th May 1917. He is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. Doctor Henry Potter worked in No.22 General Hospital in Camiers and describes the scene there during the Battle of Arras: “On the 9th we took in fifteen hundred in twenty-four hours. Every ward is full and the D lines are crowded. The B line has forty-three pretty bad cases in it. Working day and night. The operating room starts about 8.30am, and four tables are going steadily till one o’clock next morning. I don’t see how the op. room nurses stand it. 273 operations in four days.” Heroes of a quite different kind.