Geoffrey Harold Woolley, was a British Army infantry officer, Church of England priest, and Second World War military chaplain. He was the first British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Vict
Geoffrey Woolley's grave at St Mary's Church, West Chiltington, Sussex
The 9th Battalion, London Regiment was a Territorial Army infantry battalion of the British Army. The London Regiment was formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in
Geoffrey Woolley
…College, Oxford. He seemed destined to follow his father into the Church until the outbreak of the First World War, when he obtained a commission in the Queen Victoria's Rifles, the 9th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment of the British Army. The Queen Victoria's Rifles were posted to the Ypres Salient. On 17…
1st Middlesex Rifle volunteers (Victoria and St George's), 1897
Group of officers of the 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Men of the 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) leaving Hyde Park on a route march in December 1914.
Hill 60 (Ypres): Memorial to the Queen Victoria's Rifles