Name
Arthur Woodcock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1541
East Surrey Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Barnet memorials not yet fully researched(*1)
Pre War
Born in Barnet in 1888. In 1911 he was living with his widowed mother Sarah Ann Woodcock and sister Florence in Frampton Road, Little Heath.
He was working for Middlesex Council. Enlisted at London.
Wartime Service
Landed in France, 24 March 1915 as part of a draft of 90 NCOs and men that joined the 2nd Battalion at St Eloi on 28 March 1915.
Killed in action. Probably the victim of shelling or sniping while moving into the front line. The battalion war diary states “Battalion left VLAMERTINGHE at 6 pm for trenches near ZONNEBEKE via YPRES.”
Additional Information
*1 If known, the ‘Barnet’ memorial is given, however ‘Barnet’ now appears to be the generic name for many historically separate Hertfordshire locations with Barnet in their name. While we try to unravel these – any help gratefully received! – we have to record ‘Barnet’. It may be that a person appears on several historical ‘barnets’. As this work is done, we will add further detail.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
