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VC996 Joseph Edward Woodall
Name Joseph Edward Woodall No.
VC Issue No. 996 Awards VC
Regiment Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), 1st Battalion
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th Battalion, The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lance-Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Robinson Street, off Regent Road, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Buried/Location Ashes Deans Grange Cemetery, Dean's Grange Road, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. St Patrick's Plot, Block H, Grave 173
Gazetted 23 July 1918
VC Presented 23 November 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Deans Grange Cemetery, Dean's Grange Road, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
P Named on Rifle Brigade Role of Fame Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
By The Way…
Before and after the war, he worked in the textile mills in his native Lancashire.
VC Held By
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England
BORN 1 June 1896
DIED 2 January 1962 AGE 65
VC Won 22 April 1918 AGE 21
Place VC Won La Pannerie, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
