Name
Thomas John Woolard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
52616
Lancashire Fusiliers
2nd/8th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 32 to 34.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Rectory Lane, Loughton, Essex son of Thomas and Mary A Woolard and lived in Council Houses, Great Parndon, Harlow, Essex in 1901.
He married Dorothy M. Hooper (later Mrs Benham) in 1915 in Epping and they lived in High Street, Roydon, Essex.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 28465, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action.
Additional Information
This man’s connection to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment may be misleading. This combined regiment was not officially formed until 1919, but arguably the process began in May 1918 with the amalgamation of the remnants of Hertfordshire Regiment with those of the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. When men died before 1919 it is likely that they were officially still in one or the other of the individual regiments. In the absence of other information we are recording them as related to Hertfordshire, rather than miss such a relationship.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
