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Military service
Service number:
1024507
Age:
41
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
January 13, 1877
Death:
November 23, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
L. B. 18.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Catherine Woollins, of Ripley, Derbyshire, England; husband of Mary Woollins, of Fairbank, Ontario.
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The Woollins family lost both father and son in November 1918. The father was Pte. George Alfred Woollins, 1024507, 75th Battalion, who died on November 23rd, 1918. His son, Pte. George William Woollins, 1024536, 3rd Battalion, died on November 3rd, 1918. -
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Cemetery
Pte Woollins died 12 days after the armistice was declared and 20 days after the death of his only son, Pte. George William Woollins who had been wounded in the Bourlon Wood attack. His son enlisted 13 Jan. 1917 at age 17-1/2 years, two weeks after his father. The family (mother, father and son) had emigrated to Canada in 1909 and settled in an area now part of Etobicoke.
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Private George Alfred Woollins
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Private George Alfred Woollins
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Woollins
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Commemorated on:
Page 526 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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