WW1 Pair Lt FHA Woodward 10th & 11th Loyal North Lancashire Regt WIA 1916

British War & Victory Medals named 2 LIEUT F H A WOODWARD.

Frederick Horace Astley Woodward born 6th Nov 1881 in Lady Wood, St Johns in the Vale and Son of John and Mary Woodward. He gained a commission in the Loyal North Lancashire Regt in Aug 1915 and was sent to France in July 1916 with the 10th Battalion. On the 19th Nov 1916 he was wounded with the battalion with multiple wounds and sent back to the UK. The War Diary for the 10th Battalion stated, on the 19th the battalion had gone forward and was occupying a sunken road running in a valley from Beaucourt to Beamont Hamel, being here in support to another battalion of its brigade (112th Brigade, 37th Division). On the following night an enemy shell burst in the middle of a group of officers, and Major Milvain, Captain Donovan RAMC and 2nd Lt Woodward, Rendal, Dunn, Allen & Watson and four other ranks were wounded, or otherwise injured.

It appears that Lt Woodward would not play any further part in the war as in April 1919 he was still disabled.