HOOLEY J. C.

James Cartledge Hooley 

Private 19504

17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

James Cartledge Hooley died on Friday 20th October 1916, aged 37 years, and is remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

He was born c1879 at Codnor, Derbyshire, and was the son of John & Sarah Hooley. John Hooley was a Carpenter and a native of "Sutton, Notts." on the 1881 census.

James Cartledge Hooley married Sarah Jane Newham at St Mary's church, Sutton-in-Ashfield in April 1900. In 1901, James & Sarah were living at Walstone Place, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

 


Notts Free Press, 19th October 1917

 

Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 18th October 1918

Hooley - In Ever-Loving Memory of Lance-Corporal James C. Hooley, who was killed in Action, in France, October 20th 1916. Gone from our home, oh, how we shall miss him, Loving him dearly, his memory we'll keep; Never while life lasts shall we forget him; Far away is the grave where our loved one sleeps. - From his loving Wife and Children.

 

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

JAMES CARTLEDGE HOOLEY. Born, Codnor, Derbyshire. Enlisted at Mansfield (Resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts) 17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 19504, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 20th Oct 1916.

 

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