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The Roll lists his address as 122 Queen's Walk.
(CWGC records that Corporal W S Woodall, regimental number S/21685, died on 26/9/1917 serving in 5th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders, and is buried in grave P.III.I.11B at St Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen, France.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that William Shaw Woodall died of wounds on 26/9/1917, and that his legatee was Miss Evelyn Hey.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that William was a native of Fartown in Yorkshire who was living in Huddersfield when he enlisted in Birmingham, and that he had served in the Royal Scots Regiment under regimental number 11423 before joining the Cameron Highlanders.
His Army pension file, under regimental number 11423, records that William Shaw Woodall was born in Fartown near Huddersfield, and was aged 17 when he enlisted the Royal Scots Regiment; he was attested at Norwich on 21/2/1913 as a Private in the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Regiment. At that time he was already a member of the Norfolk Regiment Special Reserve, and stated that he had previously served in the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment until 28/4/1912. He was appointed as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Scots on 21/1/1914. Having served only in the UK, he was discharged at his own request on 27/2/1914, upon payment to the Army of £18; the pension file was noted that on 16/7/1916 the Army paid a partial refund of £9 to Mr W.G. Woodall of 19 Tunberry Terrace, Birkby, Huddersfield in respect of that £18 payment. William's next of kin were recorded on the pension file as his father William Gibson Woodall at 82 Onley Street, Norwich, and his brothers Harry, Raymond, Edward and Leonard. [William's brother Raymonds' Army pension file recorded that his next of kin in 1918 was his father William Gibson Woodall, of 122 Queen's Walk, Woodston, Peterborough].
The Medal Rolls record that William later joined the Cameron Highlanders as a Corporal.
The birth of William Shaw Woodall was registered in Huddersfield District in 1896. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Emma and William Gibson Woodall at 62 Fartown Green Road in Huddersfield. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 12 Lincoln Street in Norwich).