BORN HULL 1895. AKA ‘JACK’. SON OF JAMES WOLFE (JACK) BARTON (1867-1903) AND CAROLINE MARY WOODLIFF, OF 74, DIVISON ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 17, DANSOM LANE HULL. A FORMER ERRAND LAD AND RECKITTS WORKER.
HE ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 18/02/1915. SERVED IN THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIEMNT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 05/05/1915, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.
UNMARRIED HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, CAROLINE. SHE REMARRIED AND BECAME CAROLINE LAURENCE, OF THE “RED LION” PUB, AT OUTWELL, WISBECK (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE DANSOM LANE MEMORIAL, HULL.
First name:
JOHN WOODLIFF
Regiment:
Military Number:
11310
Rank:
Private
Date Died
05/05/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
