BORN HULL 1877. A HULL HAIRDRESSER. WELL KNOWN IN THE DRYPOOL AREA. HE ENLISTED IN THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS), IN 1914. MARRIED WIFE KATIE ANNIE (WALLIS), AT HULL, IN 1915. LIVED AT 4 HOLDERNESS AVENUE, HYDE PARK, LEEDS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 24/11/1916, AGED 39. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIFE KATE AND DAUGHTER DORIS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/12/1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, “SOME DAY AGAIN OUR EYES SHALL SEE HIS DEAR FACE HELD IN MEMORY”
PRIVATE WILLIAM WOOLLER 12/1516. Born in Hull in 1877, William was married to Katie Annie Wooller and they had a daughter called Doris. He enlisted at City Hall late in 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals, and served in Egypt over the Christmas of 1915 landing in France early in March the following year. William was fatally wounded during the last desperate days of the Somme campaign and died in number 13 General Hospital at the base camp at Boulogne. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery; he was 39 years old.
