BORN LEEDS 1899. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH AGNES WOOLLARD. LIVED WITH SISTER MRS A. D. CARTER, IN HEDON. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY PRIVATE, 20096 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 18. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS GUARDIAN, JOSEPH WILLIAM HOWARD AT THIS PENSION LEDGER AND CWGC ADDRESS. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
NOTE: CWGC RECORDS RECORD HIS SURNAME AS WOOLLAND. ARMY RECORDS SAY HIS SURNAME WAS WOOLARD.
First name:
JOHN
Military Number:
72329
Rank:
Private
Date Died
04/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
1 SUNNY BANK, HULL ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
