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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Morley
• Land Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of Ernest Octavius Wooler and Tabitha Louisa (his wife), of Ashfield, Pannal Ash, Harrogate. One brother, Charles Armytage, also died of wounds, 20 July 1916 (buried at All Saints, Harlow); one sister, Winifred;
• Education Sedbergh School; St.John's College (Cambridge University - BA in Classics 1914)
• Profession BA Classics
• Extra info Signed the Visitors' Book of Talbot House on 6 February 1916

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 6 September 1914
• Service number 12560
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Medals Mentioned in Despatches
• Regiment and unit 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Other data related to military career Joined the 11th West Yorkshire Regiment as private on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2/Lt in the 12th West YR, December 1914; intelligence officer

Death

• Wounded 27 March, St. Eloi, Struck on the temple by a piece of shrapnel
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 8

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