Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Arthur James Woodford (Sergeant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Arthur James
Surnames: Woodford
Date of Death: 21/11/1918
Burial Date: 26/11/1918
Age at Death Years: 33
Grave Type: War Grave
Military Rank: Sergeant
Map Reference Number: RSHG 042 A3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3186
Grave Description: Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstone and rectangular stone tablet on grave.

Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: 15356. Special Signal Coy. (Ireland). Royal Engineers.
Added burial date, source: Burial records

Although mentioned on this CWGC memorial, A.V.G. Woodford is not interred in this plot but is commemorated at Helles memorial, Turkey, source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
Old Website Grave ID: 1154

Inscription:

15356 SERJEANT
A. J. WOODFORD
ROYAL ENGINEERS
21ST NOVEMBER 1918
AGE 33

ALSO IN MEMORY OF
1632 PTE A. V. G. WOODFORD
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
11 SEPTEMBER 1915 AGE 18

Stone Tablet:
ALSO HIS WIFE
LYDIA WOODFORD
WHO DIED
23RD JULY 1959

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A J Woodford (May 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Woodford (Feb 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Funeral
''The military funeral report from the IW Observer.''

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