Name
John Edward Woodcock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1914
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
L/8252
Royal Fusiliers *1
4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 6 and 8.
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
Pre War
Born in Potters Bar in 1883. Enlisted at London while resident in Potters Bar. Service number 8252 suggests he enlisted in 1900. In 1901 at Shaft Barracks, Western Heights, Dover. In 1911 at Barracks in Hounslow. In 1911 his widowed mother Sarah Ann Woodcock was living in Frampton Road, Little Heath with two of his younger siblings.
Wartime Service
Landed in France, 21 August 1914. Killed in action. Most probably he was killed in the Battle of Nonne Boschen Wood in the final phase of the First Battle of Ypres
Additional Information
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
