Flying Officer: Harold Lindsay Cathcart "Rollo" Woolley ,Royal Air Force

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery Patron

    Flying Officer (Pilot) WOOLLEY, HAROLD LINDSAY CATHCART
    Service Number 89816

    Died 02/12/1942

    Aged 23

    152 Sqdn.
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

    Son of the Revd. Geoffrey Harold Woolley, V.C., O.B.E., M.C., M.A., and Janet Beatrix Woolley, of West Grinstead Rectory, Horsham, Sussex. B.A., Hons. (Oxon.): Queen's College.


    INSCRIPTION
    RUGBY SCHOOL. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. "I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON"
    Casualty
    Son of Geoffrey Woolley, Victoria Cross

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    Geoffrey Harold Woolley (1892 - 1968) - Find A Grave Photos
     
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  2. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

    1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
    The Haven Grove Hill, Harrow, Middlesex
    NAME DOB OCCUPATION
    Geoffrey H Woolley 14 May 1892 Chaplain Harrow School (married)
    Frances R Woolley 21 Mar 1889 Unpaid Domestic Duties (single, his sister)
    Sorry, this record is officially closed.

    Geoffrey's brother, Herbert Martin Woolley, was killed on the Somme in 1916: Casualty

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  3. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

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  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
    Name: FL Off Harold Lindsay Cathcart Woolley
    Death Date: 2 Dec 1942
    Cemetery: Massicault War Cemetery
    Burial or Cremation Place: Borj el Amri (Massicault), Manouba, Tunisia
    Has Bio?: Y
    URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...

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  5. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

    From an account of Geoffrey in "Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914- April 1915: Mons to Hill 60" by Peter Old Field:

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