Name
James Woollams
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15530
Coldstream Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 D and 8 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial, St Peter's Church, Mill End, St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End (*1)
Pre War
*1 The name that appears on the school memorial is only given as J Woollams, so it is not yet clear whether that is the man or Joseph Woollams.
James was born in 1882 in Rickmansworth, son of James, a bricklayer, and Emma Woollams. In 1901 he was living in Church Lane, Mill End with his parents and working as a labourer at a gravel pit.
He married Lily Davenport at St Peter’s Church in Mill End in January 1906. At that time his address was given as 9 Chapel Row, Mill End. In 1911, he and Lily were living at 3 Etna Cottages, Church Lane, Mill End with two children, James Albert Davenport and Lena May Ellen Woollams. James was then working as a general labourer and his wife was a mill hand.
Wartime Service
James Woollams enlisted at Watford and entered France on 26.10.1915. He was killed in action on the Somme. The Thiepval memorial commemorates more than 72000 men of the British and South African Forces, most of whom died in the Somme offensive of 1916.
Additional Information
His effects of £6 3s 2d and War gratuity of £6 10s were left to his widow, Lily Woollams.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
