BORN BEVERLEY 20/01/1893. SON OF ALFRED WOOLAS (1869-1946), A FARM FOREMAN, & MARY WRAY (1868-1942), WHO MARRIED IN BEVERLEY IN 1887. HE RESIDED AT THE MARKET PLACE, TICKHILL, ROTHERHAM. WORKED AS A SEAMAN. (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A SEAMAN BEFORE THE WAR AND BASED IN FELIXSTOWE. HIS NAVAL RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, W […]
Born Hull, on 11/12/1896. Baptised on 10/01/897 • St Charles Borromeo, Hull. Son of James Edwin Britton Head (1864-1937) and Elizabeth Clarke, of 12 Somerscales Street, Hull (War pension address). Son of a postman. He had three brothers and two sisters. Worked as a stable lad groom. at Newmarket (1911 Census). He enlisted at Bury St E […]
