FREDERICK ALBERT WOODLEY
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Image taken from the Evening Star – 27th June 1945.
JOHN
Born: 13th April 1917, All Saints, Ipswich.
Died: 29th May 1943; age: 26; died of Acute Enteritis at Takanoon POW Camp whilst a Japanese POW on the Thailand/Burma Railway.
Captured: 15th February 1942 – the Fall of Singapore.
Residence: 20, Mornington Avenue, Ipswich.
Occupation: Trolley Bus Conductor – Ipswich Borough.
Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 5828805.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 5th Battalion.
The body was originally buried in grave 11, a common grave, with seven other bodies. On the 8th February 1946, the bodies were exhumed, identified and reburied at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.
Grave Reference:
2.0.52.
Kanchanaburi,
Thailand.
Image courtesy of Kevin Knights
Relatives Notified & Address: Eldest son of Robert Albert Woodley & Athalinda Woodley, of 255, Bramford Lane, Ipswich; husband of Elsie Lilian Woodley, of Plumstead, London.
Nephew to GEORGE WILLIAM WOODLEY and cousin to ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY. all kia.
Father: Robert Edward (Albert) Woodley, born September 1889, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire – died May 1942, at 225, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.
Mother: Athalinda Woodley (nee Jessup), born June 1890, in Ipswich.
CENSUS
1921 225, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.
Frederick was 4 years & 2 months old and lived with his parents and sisters.
Albert Woodley, 33 years & 9 months old, an Electric Tram Motorman for the Ipswich Corporation, of Constantine Road, Ipswich.
Athalinda Woodley, 30 years old, Home Duties.
Ellen Jessie Woodley, 6 years & 11 months, at School, born All Saints, Ipswich.
Kathleen Mabel Woodley, 10 months old, born All Saints, Ipswich – died 1923, Ipswich.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.
Frederick was a Trolley Bus Conductor. He lived with his parents at the Woodley family home – 225, Bramford Lane, Ipswich.
Robert, a Caretaker & Verger.
Athalinda, unpaid Domestic Duties.
On the 27th December 1939, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, Frederick married Elsie Lilian Bragg, a Saleswoman in the Retail Grocery Food Distribution Trade, born April 1918, Ipswich – daughter of Henry Bragg, an undertaker’s assistant and an Army pensioner, and Ruth Eleanor Bragg (nee Wade), of 193, Cemetery Road, Ipswich.
Frederick is also remembered on the war memorial inside the Town Hall, Ipswich.
5th Battalions
The Battalions were attached to the 18th East Anglian Division.
15 February 1942: After the fall of Singapore, approximately 620 of the Battalions were taken POW and later mostly died on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
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