BORN LIVERSEDGE, YORKSHIRE, 1894. SON OF PERCY BROOKE WOODCOCK & MARY ANN WOODCOCK, OF 5, BARMSTON STREET, HULL, 1, BREWERY HOUSE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES) AND 99, NEWCOMEN STREET, HULL. BROTHER TO DONALD, GERTRUDE AND CLARICE. A STOCK CLERK. HE LIVED IN HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9.5 INCHES TALL, 36.5 INCHES TALL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE HULL PALS, ON 04/11/1915, AGED 21 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 03/04/1916. WOUNDED. RETURNED TO ENGLAND, ON 03/08/1916. RETURNED TO FRANCE, ON 12/12/1916. HE WAS BURIED BY A SHELL WHILE STRETCHER BEARING IN OCTOBER 1917, AND SUFFERED SHELL SHOCK. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 14/127, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 07/10/1917. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/05/1918, AGED 24. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 2 YEARS AND 196 DAYS. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY.
BURIED AT TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HAPPY MEMORIES WILL EVER LINGER HIS SPIRIT IS STILL WITH US”.
