The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal H L Wooddeson

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Corporal Herbert Leslie WOODDESON, G/10674, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,   killed in action,  Flanders France, 15th September 1916.

Born Kennington, SE, son of William Robert & Mary Jane Wooddeson, 152 Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, SE.

25th December 1911, St Pauls Church, Lorirmore Square, Southwark, Newington, SE Herbert Leslie Wooddeson, age 24, bachelor, Dairy Man, 74 Lorimore Street, father William Robert Wooddeson, Dairy Man, married *Louisa Mary Ann Hale, age 27, spinster, 74 Lorimore Street, father Frederick Edwin Hale, Painter. *Deceased 1917, September Quarter, Lambeth.

Child - Herbert Frederick Robert Wooddeson, born 19th September 1912, Southwark.

Enlisted Camberwell, SE, age 27 years & 6 months, height 5ft 4¾ inches, weight 130lbs, slight flat foot left.   Resided 88 Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, SE. Formerly milkman.

Home, 3rd November 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 15th September 1916.

3rd November 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 16th May 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 10th August 1916, appointed Acting Corporal.

Guardian to Herbert Frederick Robert Wooddesdon, Sister in Law to deceased Soldier - Mrs Isabel R Hamshar, 88 Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, SE5.

15th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, deceased; Children - Herbert Frederick Robert Wooddeson, born 19th September 1912, 88 Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, SE5.; Father, William Wooddeson, 152 Grosvenor Terrace; Mother, deceased.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C,. Somme, France.