Rank: Private

Date of Death: 13/03/1944

Regiment/Service: Home Guard
22nd County of Lancaster (Rochdale) Bn. LANCASHIRE

Grave Reference: North of church.

Cemetery: St James Christleton Churchyard Section 4 K10

Additional Information:
Son of William and Martha Woolley of Christleton ; husband of Dorothy May Woolley, of Rochdale. Lancashire. He is buried together with his parents Wiliam & Martha Wooley, a well established Christleton family. William died on active service.

The Home Guard/ Local Defence Volunteers or LDV, or in slang, Look-Duck-Vanish, hence the name change was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War. 

Operational from 1940 until 1944, the Home Guard—comprising 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, hence the nickname 'Dad's Army' — acted as a secondary defence force, in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany and their allies.

The Home Guard guarded the coastal areas of Britain and other important places such as airfields, factories and explosives stores.

Lancashire raised 71 battlions of the Home Guard as well as numerous Heavy anti-aircraft units and Light anti-aircraft units, also Home Guard Transport Columns, And Women's Home Guard units, Railway battalions, Post Office battalions.

Units of the Home Guard were affiliated to and administrated by their local Territorial Army Association, and it was stipulated that each unit should wear the cap badge of the county in which it was raised. Edward’s Cap Badge was the Lancashire Fusiliers

Name: Edward Walter Weaver

Rank: Private

Service No: 3973708

Date of Death: 01/12/1942

Age: 20 years

Regiment/Service: Welch Regiment and No. 1 Commando

Memorial: MEDJEZ-EL-BAB MEMORIAL

Panel Reference: Face 23.

Operation Bizerte, Tunisia

Additional Information:
Edward Walter was the son of David William and Constance Weaver, of Christleton, Cheshire.

Edward, a member of the Welch Regiment and no1 commando was involved in the build up to the battle called Operation Bizerte in Tunisia. It is not certain how he died, but as he died at the beginning of December 1942, he was not involved in the main battle, as that took place between the 3rd – 7th May 1943. The Medjez - el -Bab Memorial was created to bury the men of the First Army who died during the operations in Algeria and Tunisia between 8th November 1942 and February 1943, and for thos