Sergeant Charles William Woolley

Army Number: 240124 formerly 1450

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal)

Military Medal
British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of John Samuel And Maria Woolley, of 3, Park Square, Woolley Rd., Matlock, Derbyshire. Awarded the Military Medal London Gazette 11th November 1916, For gallantry and devotion to duty on 1st July 1916, when in the attack on Gommecourt. Went to France on 25th February 1915. Died of wounds 23rd April 1917, aged 23.

Derbyshire Courier 1st September 1917

Buried: Chocques Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row K. Grave 20.

Chocques Military Cemetery, France.