Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Charles Basil Stanley Woodford -

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Friday, February 12, 1915 Page 1

Percy Woodford, a son of Dr. Woodford, who is in the Royal Engineers, has been spending a brief holiday in Ventnor after several months of stiff work at the front. He tells in a breezy manner of the confidence and spirit of the British soldier even under the most dangerous and depressing influences, and relates how markedly superior the Allies' artillery has become. He asserts that a large number of the German shells do not explode at all. Regarding the issue of rum to those in the trenches, Woodford says each man gets about two tablespoonfuls, and being often wet through and very cold, it is greatly appreciated.

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Friday, June 25, 1915 Page 1

Mr. C.B. Woodford, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. Russell Woodford, has been gazetted to a lieutenancy in the 7th Gloucester Regiment.

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Friday, September 1, 1916 Page 5

We hear that Dr. and Mrs. E. Russell Woodford have received intimation that their son, Lieut. C.B. Woodford, who went to the front a few weeks ago, is missing.

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Friday, September 29, 1916 Page 1

We hear that information has been received to the effect that Lieut. C.B. Woodford, son of Dr. and Mrs. E.R. Woodford, is now reported "missing and a prisoner."

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Friday, October 6, 1916 Page 5

The only official information Dr. and Mrs. Woodford have received of their son, Second Lieut. C.B. Woodford, is that he is "missing." The following report has been received from the British Red Cross Society, given them by Pte. R.H. Webb, Gloucester Regt., in hospital in France: -
Two parties had gone out to bomb and our party was to take the trench. We were in a shell hole about 100 yards from the German trenches, when Mr. Woodford jumped up and ran towards the trench. We did not see him again. Soon afterwards a man came into our shell hole, Pte. - , and said Mr. Woodford had been wounded. Just as he said this he was shot dead. Mr. Woodford must be a prisoner if alive, as we did not get the trench.
- Last week we said he was a prisoner and this appears to be incorrect.

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Friday, June 22, 1917 Page 1

We regret to announce that definite information has now been received by his family concerning the fate of Lieut. C.B.S. Woodford, 15th Batt., Gloucester Regt., and fourth son of Dr. and Mrs. E. Russell Woodford of this town. Lieut. Woodford was previously reported missing, he is now reported killed in action on August 22nd last year. He was 39 years of age. Lieut. Woodford took an active interest in all kinds of sport in Ventnor. He was goal-keeper for the Football Club for many years, and a capital exponent of the game. At different times he did good work for the Cricket Club. He was a man of gentle personality and a sportsman in the truest sense of the word. A few years ago he married and spent some time in America, subsequently coming home for the benefit of his wife's health. He had the misfortune to lose his wife soon afterwards. Lieut. Woodford's many friends will hear of his death with deep sorrow, and condolence will be felt generally with his family in their bereavement. His death makes the total of local men who have fallen in the war about thirty.

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KILLED IN ACTION.
WOODFORD. -Previously reported missing, now reported killed in action in France on August 22nd, 1916, Second-Lieut. Charles Basil Stanley Woodford, 15th Batt., Gloucester Regt., fourth son of Dr. and Mrs. E. Russell Woodford, age 39 year

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Friday, July 13, 1917 Page 2

Ventnor District Council.
VOTES OF CONDOLENCE.
The Chairman, before the minutes were read, said: I regret it is my duty, as it has been so often the duty of the Chairman, to ask you again to express your sympathy with those who belong to our town. Lieut. Woodford, son of Dr. Woodford, was reported missing some time ago, and we hoped we might get news of him, but unhappily the information is that he was killed in August last. Pte. Feaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Feaver, was in hospital in Yorkshire, and he also has passed away. And in this association I must also mention a lady who for several years has done a good deal of public work in this neighbourhood, and who has recently died, namely, Mrs. Hahnemann. I ask the Council to pass a vote of sympathy with the relatives of all these who have passed away since our last meeting.
The vote was carried in silence by the members standing.
(not all the report has been transcribed)

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Friday, August 3, 1917 Page 4

Ventnor District Council.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
The following letters were read:

Home Mead, Ventnor,
July 25th, 1917.
Dear Mr. Oakes, - Please accept Mrs. Woodford's and my sincere thanks for the kind sympathy expressed by the members of the Council and yourself in the sad loss we have sustained by the death of our dear son. - Yours sincerely, E. RUSSELL WOODFORD.

(not all the report has been transcribed)

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Friday, August 6, 1915 Page 4

KILLED IN ACTION
CHALLENOR. On the 31st July, in Flanders, Norman Bowen Challenor, Captain, 3rd Royal Berks Regiment, the beloved husband of Alice Marion, second daughter of E. Russell Woodford, M.D., of Ventnor, I.W., and second son of Mr. and Mrs. Bromley Challenor, of Abingdon, Berks, aged 30.

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Our sympathy at this time will be with Mrs. Challenor (daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. Russell Woodford) in the death (killed in action) of her husband, Captain Norman Challenor, of the 3rd Royal Berkshire Regt.