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VC584 Geoffrey Harold Woolley
BORN 14 May 1892
DIED 10 December 1968 AGE 76
VC Won 20-21 April 1915 AGE 22
Place VC Won Hill 60, Zwarteleen, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Geoffrey Harold Woolley No.
VC Issue No. 584 Awards VC OBE MC MA
Regiment London (Queen Victoria's Rifles) Regiment, 9th (County of London) Battalion
Later The London Regiment
Now 7th Battalion, The Rifles
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth St Peter's Vicarage, Bethnal Green, London, England
Place Of Death At his home, Hunter's Barn, West Chiltington, near Pulborough, Sussex, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Mary's Churchyard, West Chiltington, Sussex, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 14 December 1968
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 22 May 1915
VC Presented 6 July 1915, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Mary's Churchyard, West Chiltington, Sussex, England
P Parmiter's School Memorial, St Georges Chapel, Ypres, Belguim
P The Geoffrey Woolley House, Pollard Street, Bethnal Green, East London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Bethnal Green Gardens, Bethnal Green, East London
By The Way…
First Territorial officer to be awarded the VC and first won by the Territorial Force during the First World War
VC Held By
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester
