Harry Woodley

[*Sandra*]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Pvt Harry Woodley - RTS/3769 -
Army Service Corps -  died 23/8/1916 - buried Chesham St Mary Cemetery.

The Commission proposes installing a special memorial to commemorate him because it is not possible  to mark his actual grave.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 for Harry Woodley - Died after discharge -
brother John.

UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 for Harry Woodley - Harry Woodley - dependant A. Bird.

Sandra

[crisane]

His British Army Service Records say he was single, his mother and father were deceased. Siblings  John Woodley age 60, Bert Woodley 41, sisters Jane Hunt age 64, Emily Kemp 49 and the third one is hard to decipher Sarah? Tuffley? age 56. From FreeBMD a Sarah Ann Woodley married a George Tuffney Amersham registration district 1884.
His brother John acknowledged receipt of the 1914 Star on the 27 May 1922.

The document, declared by his sister Jane Hunt 19 January 1922 also asks for names of nephews and nieces of the soldier but there are non given with diagonal lines through the square

[cath151]

A newspaper piece about his sudden death published 2nd Sep 1916 Bucks Herald, gives his age as 43 and says he was single. He had been an artilleryman before the war and rejoined. No other identifying info.

Cathy

[crisane]

Sarah Ann Woodley and George Tuffney had 5 sons according to one tree on ancestry but they don't give a spouse for any of them.

A possible nephew of Harry
Tuffney George Henry mmn Woodley 
GRO Reference: 1884  Sept 1/4 Amersham  Vol 3A  page 578

Marriage Sept 1/4 1905 Wandsworth
Registration Quarter:   Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District:   Wandsworth vol 1d page 958
George Henry Tuffney
Elizabeth G Beaucham

Deaths March 1/4 1927   
Tuffney Elizabeth G   age 45 Wandsworth   1d 600

Marriages Sept 1/4 1930   (>99%)
Doris A Tucker   
George H Tuffney   
Battersea    1d   1185    
   
Death Dec 1943 England

[Kloumann]

1891 census, Chesham.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4G65-BW2

1881 census, Great Missenden.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-RN6F

Family tree listing 10 children

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/MSN2-DLV

Harry's baptism, 1873, Great Missenden.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J735-2Q7

[crisane]

The full census 1891 so Harry is with his sister Jane and husband and children
Bellingdon, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
RG 12 Piece 1129 folio 100
John Hunt 35 Head
Jane Hunt 34 Wife Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Clara Hunt 13 Daughter
James Hunt 9 Son
John Hunt 4 Son
Nellie Hunt 1 Daughter
William Woodley 21 Boarder
Harry Woodley 17 Boarder  Missenden, Buckinghamshire

No shortage of descendants of Harry's siblings to follow up. 

[Kloumann]

Henry Woodley, born J quarter 1873, Reg'd Amersham, MMN Cox

[*Sandra*]

Thanks for the help, really appreciated.

1911 census 110 Waterside, Chesham, Bucks.

William Woodley   41
Emily Woodley   34
William Bertee Woodley 18  carman.
Georgie Burch   12
Willie Woodley   11
Dorothy Woodley 7
Gladys Trena Woodley 6
William Bertie Woodley

William B Woodley - 1921 Amersham Buckinghamshire - spouse Florrie Mayger
Volume Number 3a - Page Number 2037

William Bertie Woodley - 5 January 1893 - 1982  (aged 89 years)
Death Age:   89
Registration District Chiltern and Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire
Volume 19  Page 0950

4 births to William and Florrie.  3 female and 1 male.

Sandra