WOOLDRIDGE Matthew

  • First Name(s):
    Matthew 
  • Surname:
    WOOLDRIDGE
  • Service Number:
    20815
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    7th April 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Basra Memorial, Iraq, Panel 18 and 63.
  • Place of Birth:
    Lye, Worcestershire, resident Wollescote, Worcestershire, enlisted Stourbridge, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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WOOLDRIDGE Matthew Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window

Further Information About WOOLDRIDGE Matthew

Matthew Wooldridge was born in Lye and volunteered for the Worcesters. He joined the 9th (Service) Battalion which was sent out to Gallipoli in August 1915. The original landings had turned into a stalemate which the new landings failed to break. After the evacuation of the peninsula in January 1916 the Worcesters moved on to Mesopotamia to continue the war with the Turks. This was an equally difficult campaign up the Tigris in 1916 in order to relieve the British forces besieged in Kut. The Worcesters advanced quickly but were held up by Turkish defenders just short of Kut. A night attack at Sanniyat on the 6th April broke into the Turkish trenches and Kut fell almost immediately. Private Matthew Wooldridge was killed on the 7th April during the fighting.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.