Second Lieutenant Charles Walter Fyffe WOOLNOUGH (1914)

10th (Reserve) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, attached to 69th Company, Machine Gun Corps
Born 23 June 1895 in Edmonton, London
Killed in action 21 March 1916, aged 20
Buried at Tranchée de Meknès Cemetery, Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Charles Woolnough was the elder son of Charles Walter Woolnough, of Highgate.

He was educated at Highgate School, London, where he was a keen gymnast, and came up to Merton in 1914.

He was gazetted to the Bedfordshire Regiment on 26 January the following year, and then made a special application to be transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.

He was shot by a sniper while in action near Loos, less than a month after leaving England, on 21 March 1916.