Royal Dublin Fusiliers
DOSSIER No 41009
Pte E. A. Woolf
Full Name
Ernest Albert Woolf
DOB
c1879
Nationality
British
Rank
Private
 
Portrait

Pte Woolf was born in Canewdon.
He worked for Mr. Frank Course at the Butchers in North Road.

He enlisted in Southend-on-Sea into the Royal Army Service Corps (281769), and later was in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
He was killed in action in France on 18th August 1917. He was aged 36.

Panel 144 to 145, Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Southend Standard, obituary, 20th September 1917
His officer wrote that he was "Always willing to do more of his share of work".
One of his brothers, Pearl Woolf was a stoker on H.M.S. "Conquest", and another brother was engaged in munition work.