BACK TO WWI NAMESWOOLEY A. E.
Arthur Edward Woolley
Private 268952
"A" Coy. 11th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Arthur Edward Woolley died on Saturday 5th October 1918, Age 20, and was buried in the BEAUREVOIR BRITISH CEMETERY, Aisne, France.
He was born c1898 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents John and Ann Woolley. John Woolley was a Hosiery Factory Framework Knitter, while his wife was a Milliner. On the 1901 census the family resided on Portland Square, Sutton, but by the time of Arthur's death they lived at 27 Wood Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
ARTHUR EDWARD WOOLLEY, born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts., enlisted Derby (resident Sutton-in-Ashfield), Private 268952, killed in action, France & Flanders, 5th October 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes