Charles's Story.
Birkenhead News 09 November 1918FORMER MEMORIAL SCHOOL BOY’S DEATH.
There has died of wounds received in action in France, on the 23rd October, Pte. Charles Woolley, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Woolley, of 16, Hope Street, Birkenhead, and whose young widow resides at 48, Brassey Street. Pte. Woolley was but 20 years of age, and was trained at the Albert Memorial Schools, Birkenhead. There he obtained a good knowledge of music, and when in the early months of 1916 he joined the 3rd Cheshires he soon found his way into the band as a bass player. He went out to France on April 4th last, had not been home on leave since, and now comes to his wife, through the War Office, the sad intelligence that he succumbed to wounds received in the fighting “somewhere out yonder.”
Charles Woolley’s photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth.