Name
Frederick James Woollams
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/04/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41654
Leicestershire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THE HUTS CEMETERY
XI. D. 14
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth,
Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mills, Croxley Green,
Not on the Croxley Green memorials
Pre War
His birth was registered in the last quarter of 1898. He was born in Croxley Green and baptised there on 7 May 1899. Frederick was the son of James and Elizabeth Woollams (nee Ford) who lived at 74 Norfolk Road, Rickmansworth in 1911.
His parents married in Rickmansworth on 20 May 1893. In 1901 they were living at Yew Cottages, Talbot Road. Frederick was one of six children living in 1911 and his father was a railway platelayer. Frederick was still at school in 1911 and presumably joined Croxley Mills later because he is remembered on the Dickinson memorial.
After his death the army paid his father £6 5s 6d including a war gratuity of £3 10s.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 48766, Northamptonshire Regiment.
In April 1918 the 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment was part of the 21st Division and they were engaged in holding the line against German attacks near Ypres. The battalion was subject to severe shelling on 19th April when Frederick was killed. He joined up in January 1917 and, after training, was drafted to the Western Front in 1918. Unfortunately, he died on his first day in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Brian Thomson
