Harold Vivian WOODFORD

Ancestral surnames: 

• Woodford, Morris, Spencer, Oakes, Palmer, Baylis, Beatty, Yates (by marriage: Bray)
• see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 4

Education: 

• The Armidale School, New South Wales, Australia 

• Tonbridge School, Kent

• Hawkesbury Agricultural College, New South Wales, Australia

Decorations & Campaign Medals:

• 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Memorials: 

• No known grave (buried on the Loos battlefield at 36c.H19a.3½.5. Body never identified after the war)

• Loos Memorial to the Missing (Panel 93) (one of 20610 names) CWGC

• civic memorial on B2135 opposite Mill Lane, Littleworth, W Sussex (memorial for several villages including Partridge Green, home of the Woodford family) (one of 55 names)

• Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Australia (one of 127 names), and also on a full Roll of Honour including survivors

• Tonbridge School (one of 418 names)

• cross in churchyard of St Peter’s Church, Cowfold, Sussex (one of 23 names)

• inside St Peter’s Church, Cowfold, Sussex (one of 23 names)

• Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia (one of 191 names)

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 189-191

Appears in Charles Bartlett's letters: see I Shall Not Be Away Long book

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