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ilders in the next edition of the Stamford & Rutland News
of 16th September 1914. Neither name can be traced in any
records.
WOODHOUSE J
Named in the Stamford & Rutland News as one of the men from
Kings Cliffe, who joined up in September 1914.
WOODING Albert
Lance Corporal 8108 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Albert was born in 1886 and was the son of Samuel and Alice
Wooding of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
By 1901, as a 14-year-old he had left home, but not the village,
and was living at the home of Sarah Law, on Pig Lane, working
as a servant. This was not, clearly, his chosen vocation, as
by the middle of June 1907 he has joined the 1st Battalion
Lincolnshire Regiment.
By the 1911 census, he was overseas with the Regiment in India
and, later that year, his Battalion formed the guard of honour for
King George V at the Coronation Durbar in India.
By November 1912 they were back at barracks at Portsmouth
and it is in Portsmouth that he met and married Jessie Susan
Neal in early 1914. Their first child, Alberta Mons Wooding, was
born at the end of that year.
Alberta’s middle name may be significant, as the 1st Lincolns
were in the early batch of the BEF, which headed out to France
on 13th August 1914.
They were on the Western Front for the duration of the war and
involved in many of the major battles. By the end of the war 75%
of the original men had become casualties – killed, wounded,
missing or prisoners. We do not have Albert’s detailed service
records but it is almost certain that he would have been injured
or gassed at some period in the war.
He did, however, survive and returned to his family in Portsmouth.
By this time there are two more children, so we can conclude
that he did get some home leave.
He died in Chichester 3rd August 1953, aged 67.
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of 16th September 1914. Neither name can be traced in any
records.
WOODHOUSE J
Named in the Stamford & Rutland News as one of the men from
Kings Cliffe, who joined up in September 1914.
WOODING Albert
Lance Corporal 8108 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Albert was born in 1886 and was the son of Samuel and Alice
Wooding of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
By 1901, as a 14-year-old he had left home, but not the village,
and was living at the home of Sarah Law, on Pig Lane, working
as a servant. This was not, clearly, his chosen vocation, as
by the middle of June 1907 he has joined the 1st Battalion
Lincolnshire Regiment.
By the 1911 census, he was overseas with the Regiment in India
and, later that year, his Battalion formed the guard of honour for
King George V at the Coronation Durbar in India.
By November 1912 they were back at barracks at Portsmouth
and it is in Portsmouth that he met and married Jessie Susan
Neal in early 1914. Their first child, Alberta Mons Wooding, was
born at the end of that year.
Alberta’s middle name may be significant, as the 1st Lincolns
were in the early batch of the BEF, which headed out to France
on 13th August 1914.
They were on the Western Front for the duration of the war and
involved in many of the major battles. By the end of the war 75%
of the original men had become casualties – killed, wounded,
missing or prisoners. We do not have Albert’s detailed service
records but it is almost certain that he would have been injured
or gassed at some period in the war.
He did, however, survive and returned to his family in Portsmouth.
By this time there are two more children, so we can conclude
that he did get some home leave.
He died in Chichester 3rd August 1953, aged 67.
247
