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Fusilier

Reginald George Woodcock

Service number 6479672
Military unit 2nd Bn Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Address Unknown
Date of birth 08 Jul 1919
Date of death 27 Jul 1944 (25 years old)
Place of birth 66 High Street, Mansfield Woodhouse.
Employment, education or hobbies

Apprentice bricklayer.

Family history

Son of Christopher and Eliza Gertrude Woodcock of the Anvil Inn, Portland Street, Mansfield Woodhouse.
Baptised George Reginald at St Edmund's Church on 13th August 1919. Reginald is also George Reginald on the CWGC site.
Eliza died in 1934.
Reginald had one sister, Evelyn born in 1923.
He married Aileen Short in 1942 they had no children. Aileen married again in 1946 to Timothy Bramley.

Military history

The Royal Fusilers were stationed in North Africa and were involved in the invasion of Sicily and Italy.

Extra information

John Duncan and Reginald George Woodcock were 1st cousins as their father's were brothers. Herbert and Christopher's father was John Woodcock. In 1911 John was living with Herbert's family at Cemetery Lodge,

Photographs

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