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, WITH A 32 INCH CHEST, FRESH COMPLEXION, GREY EYES & LIGHT BROWN HAIR.
FRANK ENLISTED IN WISBECH, UNDER THE SURNAME “BROWN”. HIS TRUE NAME WAS ‘WOOLAS’. HE SERVED AS A PRIVATE, IN THE 7TH SUFFOLK REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/10/1915, AGED 22. (On 13th the 7th Btn were in the Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt capturing Gun Trench and Hulluch quarries)
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, ALFRED WOOLAS.
