Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major T. G. Woolley, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (Lieut. T. G. Woolley. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. G. Woolley.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1943, with integral top brooch bar, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £120-£160

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Thomas Golding Woolley was born in Kensington, London on 27 June 1890 and was educated at Cheltenham College – where he was a member of the Shooting VIII – and at the City and Guilds Engineering College in Brompton, London. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers (Territorials) in September 1912, he was embarked for Egypt in the 2 (East Lancashire) Field Company, R.E., in September 1914. The company was subsequently embarked for Gallipoli, where Woolley was wounded in July 1915. Of his subsequent movements and units nothing for certain is known, but he was promoted to Captain in June 1916. His old company was re-titled 428 (East Lancashire) Field Company, R.E., and if he returned to it after recovering from his wounds, he may have seen further action in France.

Following the renewal of hostilities, Woolley was appointed a Temporary Major in the Royal Engineers in February 1941, in which rank he was ‘specially employed’ on home duties and awarded his Efficiency Decoration in June 1943. He retired to Dorset, where he died in August 1966.