WOOLEY, Alfred Richard
| Service Numbers: | 327, 8 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 December 1914, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland. |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia. , 26 September 1868 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer, Assistant Inspector of Nuisances-Cairns Town Council |
| Died: | Heart Attack. , Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 21 March 1920, aged 51 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland Monumental West Side, Row K, Grave No 483. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 327 | |
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| 11 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 327, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, The Boer Offensive, South African Boer War 1899-1902 | |
| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 327, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 327, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Nov 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 8, 2nd Infantry Battalion, SS Eastern, Sydney | |
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| 28 Nov 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 8, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Eastern embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 Dec 1914: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Lance Corporal, 8, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland. | |
| 23 Jul 1915: | Promoted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Corporal, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps |
Alfred Richard Wooley.
Alfred Richard Wooley was born 26 September 1868 in Adelaide, South Australia the son of William Wooley and Ann Durbridge. William and Ann were married in 1852 in Southwark, Surrey England. Alfred was their 5th child. William and Ann’s other children included William (1859-1860), Edward Henry (1861-1950), Ada Jane (1863-1949), William Thomas (1866-1932), James (1872-1872), Arthur James (1875-1950) and Martha Anne (1881-1973). Alfred was a laborer living in Spence Street Cairns with his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Wooley. Alfred married Caroline Elizabeth Long 27 June 1906 in Queensland. Alfred and Caroline had four children; Edith Annie (1907-1908), Alfred Augustus (1909-1977), Clement (1910-1975) and Walter George Painting (1912-1985). Courtesy of The Cairns District Family History Society.
Submitted 14 April 2021 by Lynette Turner
Alfred Richard Wooley.
Alfred Richard Wooley was born 26 September 1868 in Adelaide, South Australia the son of William Wooley and Ann Durbridge. William and Ann were married in 1852 in Southwark, Surrey England. Alfred was their 5th child. William and Ann’s other children included William (1859-1860), Edward Henry (1861-1950), Ada Jane (1863-1949), William Thomas (1866-1932), James (1872-1872), Arthur James (1875-1950) and Martha Anne (1881-1973)
Alfred was a laborer living in Spence Street Cairns with his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Wooley. Alfred married Caroline Elizabeth Long 27 June 1906 in Queensland. Alfred and Caroline had four children; Edith Annie (1907-1908), Alfred Augustus (1909-1977), Clement (1910-1975) and Walter George Painting (1912-1985). Courtesy of The Cairns District Family History Society.
Submitted 14 April 2021 by Lynette Turner
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Alfred Richard Wooley enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his mother Mrs. A. Wooley, Gilberton, South Australia.
Alfred Richard Wooley was born on 26 Sep 1868 at Adelaide, a son to William Wooley and Ann Wooley (nee Durbridge). He married Caroline Elizabeth Long in 1906 in Queensland and they had 5 children. When he enlisted in 1914 for WW1 they were living in Cairns where he was working as a labourer.
When he passed in 1920 an obituary published in The Cairns Post, 23 Mar 1920, noted he arrived in Cairns in 1906. Prior to that he had spent time in Broken Hill and Chillagoe. He was an accomplished sportsman and was part of the committee formed to establish a Rest and Recreation Home for Cairns Soldiers and remained an active member of the returned services association. Prior to his passing he was employed as an Assistant Inspector of Nuisances with the Cairns Town Council.
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