Name
George Wooley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
352816
Army Service Corps
Heavy Artillery Mechanical Transport
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
George Wooley was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley in Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919. He was initially identified from the Absent Voter Records and was not recorded elsewhere in the Abbots Langley Parish records. In the Absent Voter Records George was listed serving with the HAMT and his address was given at 10 Shafford Cottages, Abbots Langley. The HAMT was the Heavy Artillery Mechanical Transport section of the Army Services Corps.
George was born in 1873 at Abbots Langley. He was one of five children born to Alfred and Eliza Wooley. In the 1881 Census the family was recorded living at Shaffords Bottom, Abbots Langley, and Alfred was listed working as a Poultry-Man Bird Dealer. By the time of the 1891 Census George had moved from the family home and was listed working as a Groom at the house of Marion Barnes, a widow living on her own means at Scots Hill, Rickmansworth.
George Wooley survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
