Person    | Male  Born 14/5/1892  Died 10/12/1968

Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolley, VC

War served, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having served in, and survived, WW1.

Born St Peter’s Vicarage in Bethnal Green, as Geoffrey Harold Woolley, the vicar’s son. The first British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross. He was serving with the London Regiment and captured Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient on the night of 20th -21st April 1915. Survived WW1 and returned to his studies, becoming ordained and working as a vicar until he retired. Died at home in Sussex.

Looking for Woolley's birth place, St Peter's Vicarage, we found St Peter's Bethnal Green Church & Vicarage Gardens so we'd guess the vicarage was one of the buildings around the Gardens.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolley, VC

Commemorated ati

Geoffrey Woolley - E2

Geoffrey Woolley House This block was built in 2013 by Tower Hamlets Communit...

Read More

Geoffrey Woolley VC

{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolle...

Read More

Other Subjects

N. C. Whitehead

N. C. Whitehead

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
E. Butler

E. Butler

9901 Private Royal Scots Fusiliers. Age 24

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
S. Alexander
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
L. F. Bear
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
S. Raymond Sebastian

S. Raymond Sebastian

Member of Lincoln's Inn

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

Previously viewed

J. P. White

J. P. White

Limehouse man who died in WW1. Initials "J. P." or "J. B."

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Jeremy Millard Butler Gotch, MA

Jeremy Millard Butler Gotch, MA

Sheriff of the City of London, 1994.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Ian Mckellen

Sir Ian Mckellen

Born Burnley, Lancashire. Versatile stage and film actor with a repertoire ranging from the classics through science fiction films and pantomime to Coronation Street. He ‘came out’ in 1988 and ha...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre

4 memorials
Albert T. Shelley

Albert T. Shelley

On east side of St John's Waterloo monument.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial