WOOLLAMS, Sydney
| Service Number: | 50 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, Returned to Australia 23 July 1919 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia , 19 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Concord Repatriation Hospital, New South Wales, Australia , 8 September 1950, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Cremated |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 50, 1st Field Ambulance, Returned to Australia 23 July 1919 | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 50, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 50, 1st Field Ambulance, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 26 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Private, 1st Field Ambulance, Promoted to Lance Corporal | |
| 5 Jan 1919: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Ambulance, Promoted to Staff Sergeant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adele Whitmore
Sydney Woollams was born in February 1891 at Woollahra a Sydney suburb, to Charles Woollams (I) and Jane Agnes nee Shaw. Before his Army enlistment he was a Clerk at North Sydney, the Customs House, Sydney. Sydney enlisted in WWI in the AIF, he returned to Australia after serving with the 1st Field Ambulance. In Apri 1917, in the London Gazette Sydney Woollams was Awarded the "Military Metal". Sydney married in Mosman 1921 Irene the daughter of Ernest A & Margaret Watson. In 1933 he was a Customs Officer at the Customs House, Sydney, residing in Fourth Street, Canterbury with his wife Irene (1901-1988)(a.k.a. "Queenie") and their son Ronnie Woollams (1924-2005). In 1948 they were living in Timaru Street, Turramurra.