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The Roll lists his address as 251 Oundle Road, Woodston, Peterborough. It inaccurately records his surname as "Wooley", and that he died on 15/8/1915; his surname was actually Woolley, and he died on 12/8/1915.
(CWGC records that Private John Thomas Woolley, regimental number TF/1430, died aged 21 on 12/8/1915 serving in 2nd/10th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and is commemorated on Helles Memorial in Turkey. They record him as the son of Nathaniel and Eliza Woolley of 251 Oundle Road, Peterborough.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records John as a native of Woodston who enlisted at Battersea. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his parents Nathaniel and Eliza were his legatees.
John's birth in Woodston was registered in Peterborough District in 1893. On the 1901 census he was living at 2 Ariel Terrace, Oundle Road in Woodston with his parents Nathaniel and Eliza. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 251 Oundle Road, Woodston.
John attended The King's School in Peterborough (on whose War Memorials he is commemorated). In 1911 he was admitted as a student teacher at Fletton School (on whose War Memorial he is also commemorated). In 1912 he progressed to St John's College in Battersea, to continue his teacher training.
John's Army service file records that he was residing at St John's College in Battersea when he enlisted on 1/11/1912 as a Private in the 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment; he transferred to the 2/10th Battalion on 28/10/1914. On 18/7/1915 he embarked on HMT Huntsgreen. He landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 9/8/1915, and was killed in action three days later, on 12/8/1915.
John is also commemorated on the WW1 Memorial lych gate at St Augustine's Church in Woodston).