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Auction: 25002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 110

Three: Lieutenant W. F. Woolf, Shropshire Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. F. Woolf.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Walter Francis Woolf), sold together with the recipient's original illuminated memorial scroll, good very fine (3)

Walter Francis Woolf was born on 1 December 1897, the son of Blanche and Major Herbert Woolf, 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, a Boer War veteran and native of Woking. Attending Lancing College (Seconds House 1912-15) it is natural that Woolf as the son of a soldier should which to attend the Royal Military College, Sandhurst which he did in November 1915.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant from Royal Military College on 19 July 1916 he served with the 3rd Battalion but was attached 7th Battalion for the duration of his time in France. Joining the Battalion at the Front he was with them during the Attack upon Serre on 13 November 1916 where he was severely wounded by a gunshot to the thigh.

Advanced Lieutenant on 19 January 1918, by the time it was Gazetted he was already dead. Woolf was killed in action at the Henin-Mercatel Road on 27 March 1918 as the Battalion tried to hold the line against the German Spring Offensive. They succeeded in doing so for some time but were forced back the day after Woolf was killed, he is buried at Wailly Orchard Cemetery, Arras; sold together with copied research.

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Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£160