WOOTTON, Alfred Philip
| Service Number: | 2701 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | West Ham, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Brewarrina, Brewarrina, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Cleaner |
| Died: | Drowned at Sea, At sea, 7 April 1919 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2701, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2701, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 7 Apr 1919: | Involvement Gunner, 2701, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2701 awm_unit: 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1919-04-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 25 and the son of Charles Philip and Clara Wootton, of 19, Empress Avenue, Ilford, Essex, England.
Births Mar 1893 Wootton Alfred Philip W. Ham 4a 57
His brother , Trooper Charles Edmund Wootton also fell.
The brothers are remembered on the St Clement's Church Memorial Panels which commemorate 285 ‘men of the parish of Great Ilford’ who died in the First World War.
In 1916, as casualties among parishioners mounted, the church council agreed to a permanent commemoration to honour those who had lost their lives. Following the Second World War, the congregation of St. Clement’s dwindled and it proved financially untenable to maintain the building in Park Avenue. In 1977, the church moved to Cecil Hall in Granville Road, less than a hundred metres away, and the old St. Clement’s Church was demolished to make way for an apartment block. The memorial oak panels were re-erected in Cecil Hall and many of the windows (including those commemorating the dead of the First World War) were removed from the old church and superimposed on windows in the new church.
In 2002, St. Clement’s closed and the memorial panels were moved into temporary storage under the care of the Essex Branch of the Western Front Association. Three years later, the six upper-panel components were re-erected in one of the corridors at Redbridge Town Hall. The size of the memorial did not permit the lower section to be installed and so, apart from one central panel, the remaining five lower panel components (which were) were disposed of by permission of the Church.