Name: Herbert Albert Woodley Rank: Leading Steward Service Number: A876 Service: HMCS Acadia, Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Date of Birth: March 3, 1887 Place of Birth: Deptford, London, England Date of Enlistment: October 3, 1939 (at HMCS Acadia) Date of Death: February 16, 1941 Age: 53 Cemetery: Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Grave: Section E, Division 2, West Side Commemorated on Page 48 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 4 Herbert was the son of Son of George Woodley (1843-1904) and Rosa (Herbert) Woodley (1856=1917), of London, England, and the husband of Agnes Jean (née Harnish) Woodley (1888- 1961), of Halifax, NS, and father of Herbert Allsey Woodley (1910-1982), Rosa Leina Woodley (1912- 1997), George Thomas Woodley (1915-1997) and Beatrice Ester (Woodley) Denty (1915-2005). His siblings were Susan Elizabeth Woodley (1882-1911), Beatrice Amelia Woodley (1884-1953), George Thomas Woodley (1885-1968), Thomas James Woodley (1888-1918), Emma Frances Woodley (b. 1890), William Woodley (1892-1911), and Henry Woodley (1893-1917). Thomas died on June 15, 1918, in Italy while serving with the 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Henry died on April 26, 1917, in Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece, while serving with the 65th Company of the Machine Gun Corps. Born in Deptford, London, Herbert lived in the Stockwell and Lambeth areas with his family. He moved to Canada in 1906 and married Agnes Jean Harnish in 1909. Agnes was born in Sheet Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the war, Herbert, his wife, and their children lived at 504 Robie Street in Halifax. He was drafted to HMCS Acadia on October 3, 1939, and was rated Leading Steward the following day. During the Second World War, HMCS Acadia served as a training ship for HMCS Stadacona and patrolled the Halifax approaches from May 1940 to March 1941. It also acted at times as a close escort for small convoys between Halifax and the Halifax Ocean Meeting Point. After being refitted in 1941, it served in Halifax as a training ship for A/A and DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship) gunners, and later at HMCS Cornwallis as a gunnery training ship. Leading Steward Herbert A. Woodley died at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from a pulmonary haemorrhage on February 16, 1941. His funeral was held at his home on Wednesday afternoon, February 19, 1941, with a service at 2 p.m. Rev. John Furlow, naval chaplain, and Rev. Gordon Brown officiated.

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