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  • Morley
  • Yorkshire, England
  • Son of Ernest Octavius Wooler and Tabitha Louisa (his wife), of Ashfield, Pannal Ash, Harrogate. One brother, Charles Armytage, also died of wounds, 20 July 1916 (buried at All Saints, Harlow); one sister, Winifred;
  • Sedbergh School; St.John's College (Cambridge University - BA in Classics 1914)
  • BA Classics
  • Signed the Visitors' Book of Talbot House on 6 February 1916

Military service

  • 6 September 1914
  • 12560
  • Second Lieutenant
  • Mentioned in Despatches
  • 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • Joined the 11th West Yorkshire Regiment as private on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2/Lt in the 12th West YR, December 1914; intelligence officer

Death

  • 27 March, St. Eloi, Struck on the temple by a piece of shrapnel
  • Died of shrapnel wounds
  • 23
  • V - A - 8

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