Walter Woolf

Second Lieutenant Walter Richard Mortimer Woolf was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 23 September 1886, in West Hampstead,Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505-1905, p. 870. the son of Mortimer, born in New York to British parents, and Miriam Woolf (née Jonas), of London. His father became managing director of Yeatman and Company, which manufactured "Sunny Spread".Yeatman and Co, gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2013. The younger Woolf studied at Clifton College and Christ College before entering law in 1910. He went onto be a member of Templar Down, Hogg, & Woolf.The Law Journal, Volume 50, p. 486.
Woolf died on 26 September 1915, of wounds received the day before in the Battle of Loos, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment.The Times (40973), Col A, p. 1: "Deaths". 30 September 1915. He had been commissioned in February, into the 3rd Borders, and arrived in France in June.The London Gazette (29070), p. 1563. 16 February 1915. Retrieved 15 February 2013.Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
He is buried in the Jewish plot of Chocques Military Cemetery.
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*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Woolf, Walter Richard Mortimer, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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