Army Number: 2966

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and enlisted at Nottingham lived at Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 28th February 1915. He was killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 20, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row L. Grave 45.

Lance Corporal Woodford is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Mary and All Saints Church War Memorial, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire.