WOOLLEY

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Trevor Woolley	Yes
Where born	Uttoxeter		Yes
Where born	Uttoxeter, Staffordshire				2
When born	About 1891				6
Address	Wife and children: 3, Bamford Row, The Heath, Uttoxeter, Staffs.	Yes		1f, 1h	2
	The Heath, Uttoxeter, Staffs.			1b, 1d, 1g	2
	Uttoxeter		Yes
Spouse	Annie Rosetter Woolley,	Yes
Children	3 young children			1h
Children	More than 1			1e
Employment Before Joining up	Worked for Mr. William Green, builder.			1h	2
Employment Before Joining up	Brewery, Uttoxeter			1d	2
Where enlisted	Lichfield, Staffordshire		Yes		2
Initial service	Formerly served as 6469 Pte, 8^th Bn, N. Staffordshire Regiment				24
Regiment at time of death	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes	Yes	1b, 1e, 1f, 1h	2, 4
Unit at time of death	8^th Bn.		Yes		2
Rank at time of death	Private	Yes	Yes	1b, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1g, 1h	2, 4
Service Number at time of death	202357	Yes	Yes		2, 4
Date of Death	4 October 1917	Yes	Yes	1e, 1f	2
Age at time of death	26	Yes
Age at time of death	31			1h
Where Killed or died	France/Flanders		Yes
	France			1f
	Ypres salient – 3^rd Ypres (Passchendaele - Passchendaele)
How he died	Missing			1e	2
How he died	Killed in Action		Yes	1f	2
Location of Grave or Memorial	Tyne Cot Memorial for the Missing Panel 124 to 125 and 162 to 162A.	Yes
Where commemorated	Uttoxeter Town Memorial (Market Square)				2,3
Awards	Victory Medal				4
Awards	British Medal				4

Before the war Thomas worked for Mr. William Green, builder, in Uttoxeter^[1h]and he also worked for a brewery in Uttoxeter ^[1d].

We do not know when he joined up.

The Uttoxeter Advertiser's issue of 16th May 1917^[1b] reported that he had been injured in the foot and was currently in hospital in Suffolk. Upon recovering, he returned to France^[1h] and on the 4^th of October 1917 he was wounded again^[1e], but we know no details other than he had received his wounds during recent fighting in France.^[1e]

At the end of November 1917 the Uttoxeter Advertiser reported that Private Woolley was now classed as wounded and missing^{[1e, 1h]}.

His wife had to wait until the first week of August 1918 to receive official confirmation of his death^[1h].

He was killed in the Ypres salient during the battle for Passchendaele.

He left a wife and three young children.

	Thomas has no known grave and his name is recorded on a panel in the Tyne Cot Memorial. The Memorial Panels run along the walls which surround the back of Tyne Cot Cemetery.

The Tyne Cot Cemetery and the other cemeteries in the Ypres area contain many graves of unidentified soldiers. Thomas may be one of them, or he may still lie where he fell, somewhere beneath the surrounding fields

This touching memorial notice was posted in the Uttoxeter Advertiser in August 1918^[1f], in the same issue as carried his obituary^[1h]