Source: The Regimental Rouge
Family Search: When Private Benjamin Woolley was born on 10 June 1891, in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England, his father, Benjamin Woolley, was 30 and his mother, Ann Maria Groves, was 28. He married Lily Huddard on 22 August 1914, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1913 and lived in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and London, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as wood machinist. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 25, and was buried in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
London Free Press Article published 11 November 2023.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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