2nd Lieutenant
Tom Willliamson HOOLEY
Infantry
Died: 3rd September 1917 - Age: 44

Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Godewaersvelde British Cemetery
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.125
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour1D GQS
    

Awards & Titles:

 

Family :

orn 22 June 1872 Manchester 1872, son of Thomas and Harriet Hooley

In 1905, he married Margaret H Collinson in a civil ceremony at Stockport.
The Thorns, Syddal Rd., Bramhall, Stockport

Education & Career :

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Liverpool University. Architects pupil 1891; Student RIBA 1893; ARIBA 1896. Briefly in partnership Frank Walter Mee about 1902-1903 under the style of Mee and Hoole.

Address
1904-1913 Tom Williamson Hooley ARIBA, AMSA. 67 Deansgate Arcade

Residence
1881 : Church Street, Eccles
1891 Heaton Moor Road, Heaton Norris
1901 Cranbourne Road
1911 Bramhall
1914 : "The Thorns", Sydall Road Bramhall

Reference : www.stockport1914-1918.co.uk

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: 45TH COY, LABOUR CORPS 

Action : The Battles of Ypres 1917 (Third Ypres, or Passchendaele) 

31 July - 10 November 1917. By the summer of 1917 the British Army was able for the first time to fight on its chosen ground on its terms. Having secured the southern ridges of Ypres at Messines in June, the main attack started on 31st July 1917 accompanied by what seemed like incessant heavy rain, which coupled with the artillery barrages conspired to turn much of the battlefield into a bog. Initial failure prompted changes in the high command and a strategy evolved to take the ring of ridges running across the Ypres salient in a series of 'bite and hold' operations, finally culminating in the capture of the most easterly ridge on which sat the infamous village of Passchendaele. The Official History carries the footnote ?The clerk power to investigate the exact losses was not available? but estimates of British casualties range from the official figure of 244,000 to almost 400,000. Within five months the Germans pushed the British back to the starting line, which was where they had been since May 1915.

n 1917 he applied for a commission in the Labour Corps, formed at the beginning of 1917 to undertake non-fighting duties behind the front line. Writing in support of his application, he stated "In the course of ordinary practice, I have had a large experience of road making, sewage treatment and water supply, principally applied to buildings in the country where no public service were available. The laying out of estates including all the varied works in connection with same has formed a large part of my practice. The management and control of large numbers of men in connection with the above works has given me the experience considered suitable for the work now applied for.” He was duly commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Labour Corps with effect from 3 April 1917 and went overseas almost immediately.

Detail :

Severely wounded, by a bomb dropped from an enemy aeroplane. He was taken to a nearby military field hospital (11th Casualty Clearing Station), where he died on 3 September 1917.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Lodge of Friendship No. 44 E.C.East Lancashire

Initiated
Passed
Raised
3rd March 1905
7th April 1905
5th May 1905
 

Discrepancies (Require checks, clarity or further research) :

- middle name Williamson not Wilkinson as some records show.

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