Woolnough Charles Walter Fyffe 2/Lt

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Surname: Woolnough;

Forename(s): Charles Walter Fyffe;

Initials: CWF;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Resided in: Crouch End;

Previous Battalion: 10 of;

Previous Regiment: Bedf Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 69 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 21-Mar-1916;

Other Data: Highgate School Register 1838-1938: son of CW Woolnough, Haselmere Rd, Crouch End. B.23/6/1895. At Sch 1910-1914. Gt War: 2Lt MGC, KIA 21/3/1916
(NB: Included in list of MGC POWs, in error)
War Diary 69 Coy: killed by a piece of shrapnel shell which struck him in the head at 1pm. Buried by the C of E Chaplain at 7.30pm
The Sphere - Portrait
Estate £197/7/4d
Northants Evening Telegraph 18/2/1939: "Former members of the MGC at Grantham which was the birthplace of the Corps in 1915 have just formed a branch of the OCA. Whenever it meets there will be a vacant chair to represent an absent member. The chair has been presented by Mrs Woolnough of Burton Lodge, Stormont Road, Highgate, London in memory of her son. Lt Fyffe Woolnough, 20, who was killed in action near Loos a month after he went overseas, and whose name by virtue of the chair will appear innthe branch books as that of a member. The President of the branch is Col WJ Lockett, secretary of the Belvoir Hunt."

Oxford University
Narrative 1 9 14 Woolnough, C. W. F. 2nd Lieutenant Machine-Gun Corps. (March 21, 191 6.);

Other Notes: WOOLNOUGH, Second Lieutenant, CHARLES WALTER FYFFE, 10th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment attd. 69th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 21st March 1916. Age 20. B. 2. Tranchee De Mecknes Cemetery, Aix-Noulette - Pas De Calais, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/32393;

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