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Also, London Metropolitan Archives hold copies of patients records for the hospital but you have to pay them for copies - you're not allowed to copy them yourself.

Here's the information on the divorce on the National Archives Catalogue.

J 77/1178/5807 More information Divorce Court File: 5807. Appellant: Henry George Woodley. Respondent: Elizabeth Annie Woodley. Co-respondent: Charles Becker otherwise Charles Henry Becker. Type: Husband's petition for divorce [HD]. 1914

You can request a copy of the documents from them by entering the J reference above into the "type reference here" box on their website, then when the record comes up on the screen, click on "request this"

Have found some online blogs about springfield house...and they have photographs of the hospital

http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/6890-Springfield-Hospital-Wandsworth-Tooting-Early-2009

http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/6177-Springfield-Hospital-Tooting-Dec-09

There is a WWI medal card at Ancestry for a Walter H Woodley, private, regtl no. 202835, in the Hampshire Regiment. He was awarded the standard Victory and British medals. There is no other info there that would indicate whether he is your Walter or not. There are medal cards for other Walter Woodleys, again, no indication of their identity.

Four possible Henry medal cards:

Henry George Woodley (sergeant, enlisted 15 May 1916)) Royal Engineers, IW & D WR329439
Henry G Woodley (corporal) Royal Berkshire Regiment 30853
Henry G Woodley Army Cyclist Corps 127 (no - killedin action 1916)
Henry G Woodley (private) Royal Army Medical Corps 72362

and of course multiple Henry Woodleys.

There is a Cpl Walter Woodley whose records are at Ancestry. I'm going through the images ... do the addresses 5 Umberstone St Commercial Rd E and 48 Grange Rd Bermondsey mean anything? They were his wife's addresses during the war. This WW was discharged as no longer physically fit for war duty.

Nope, rule that one out too (I'll leave this post to note that he's been ruled out). He married Rose Lewis 1914 and had daughter Rose Daisy 1918.

On the question about the ship being sunk -- yes indeed, "troop ships" were sunk, so you're right, he wasn't necessarily in the navy.

The divorce:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

In the quick search box in the upper right, put

henry george woodley divorce

Divorce Court File: 5807.
Appellant: Henry George Woodley.
Respondent: Elizabeth Annie Woodley.
Co-respondent: Charles Becker otherwise Charles Henry Becker.
Type: Husband's petition for divorce [HD].
Date: 1914
Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives

Found him: He was in hospital

1901 England Census about Walter Woodley
Name: Walter Woodley
Age: 1
Estimated birth year: abt 1900
Relation: Patient
Gender: Male
Where born: Sunbury, Middlesex, England
Civil Parish: Southwark St Saviour
Ecclesiastical parish: St Saviour
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: St Saviour Southwark
Sub-registration district: St Saviour, Southwark
ED, institution, or vessel: Guys Hospital
Neighbors: View others on page

found them in 1901 census

901 England Census about Elizth A Woodley
Name: Elizth A Woodley
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1895
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: Hy G Woodley
Mother's name: Elizth A Woodley
Gender: Female
Where born: Sunbury, Middlesex, England
Civil Parish: Sunbury
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Staines
Sub-registration district: Sunbury
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 25
Household Members:
Name Age
Hy G Woodley 29
Elizth A Woodley 26
George J Woodley 7
Elizth A Woodley 6
Hy G Woodley 5





No Walter!!! hmmmmmm

is this mum??? was she known as annie at all???

Annie juniors birth is sunbury

Name: Relationship to head: Marital Status: Years married: Sex: Age in 1911: Occupation: Where born: Report error View Original Page
WOODLEY, ANNIE HEAD MARRIED F 37 MONTHLY NURSE KENSINGTON
WOODLEY, ANNIE DAUGHTER SINGLE F 16 SUNBURY ON THAMES
A household occupies a single original household page.

In cases where a household was too large for one page an institution schedule was filled in instead.

Institutions, vessels and military buildings may span more than one original page.

WOODLEY ANNIE (RG14PN9535 RG78PN509 RD188 SD5 ED16 SN395)
Address 60 CALEDON ROAD EAST HAM LONDON E County Essex
District West Ham Subdistrict South East Ham
Enumeration District 16 Parish East Ham

Could the Harold aged 11.....be Walter Harold and like his dad (again) was known by his middle name??

Found this 1911 Census...Harry living with the chapmans

HAPMAN, ALICE WIFE MARRIED F 49 ESSEX ALTHORNE
CHAPMAN, ALICE DAUGHTER SINGLE F 22 JEWELLER'S CLER ESSEX BURNHAM ON CROUCH
CHAPMAN, FLORENCE DAUGHTER SINGLE F 20 JEWELLER'S CLER SUSSEX RYE
CHAPMAN, ANNIE DAUGHTER SINGLE F 19 DOMESTIC NURSE SUSSEX RYE
CHAPMAN, FRANK SON SINGLE M 17 HOUSE PAINTER APPRENTICE SUSSEX RYE
CHAPMAN, SIDNEY SON SINGLE M 15 APPRENTICE GROCER SUSSEX RYE
CHAPMAN, OLIVE DAUGHTER SINGLE F 11 SCHOOL SCHOLAR SUSSEX RYE
WOODLEY, HARRY NEPHEW SINGLE M 15 APPRENTICE PRINTER MIDDLESEX SUNBURY
WOODLEY, HAROLD NEPHEW M 11 SCHOOL SCHOLAR MIDDLESEX SUNBURY

Thanx evryone

Walter was definitely a master carpenter. We have a single inlaid wooden box made by him and he is sai d to have been employed particularly in the making of fancy staicases in many of Londons best hotels and shops.It doesn't look as if his war records are going to be found, I have tried eveything I can think of but no joy.If we can't finf him can you find a war record of his father Henry George- he was very good at handling men I beleive?

You can purchase his death cert online from the General Registry Office. ( cost £9.25)

Go to
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates

You can order the death cert here

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

You'll need the reference that Mike found for you higher up the page.

no, im affraid they are burnt: a lot of records were destroyed in a fire i think during the blitz..

Looks like im looking at the wrong walter....there was Walter Reginald Woodley born 1899 in Fulham

I've had a look on Ancestry, and that Walter Woodley from Fulham was a slater and tiler by profession.

You have all the correct information, and the dates fit in. Do you think I would be able to get a death cert which would give a cause of death- can you acess hospital records do you think?
All the family seem absolutely convinced he wasin the navy, but they are very old now and may have assumed that description of him being sunk at least twice meant the navy.Did many WW1 soldiers actually get sunk ?
Lastly, I don;t suppose its remotely possible any WW1 records might contain a photo?
Thanks for trying to tie uplose ends.

Ancestry is being a pain! wont load things

but if this is the same one, he left the forms blank where it asks about his wife and children.