CO-CCCF-0034

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

RICHARD NASON WOODLEY, D.S.O.

LEADES, AGHINAGH

DIED 29TH SEPT. 1964.

HIS BELOVED WIFE AILSA MARGARET

DIED 20TH OCT. 1986, AGED 89 YEARS

I WILL LIFT UP MY EYES UNTO THE HILLS

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909947269978
Longitude: 
-8.7929101299866
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Richard Nason
Surname: 
Woodley
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1964
Address: 
Leades, Aghinagh
Name: 
Ailsa Margaret
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1986
Age: 
89
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Notes: 

The initials 'D.S.O.' stand for Distinguished Service Order, a British military decoration.

Richard Nason Woodley, D.S.O. from Leades, Aghinagh, qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Joining the army (Royal Army Medical Corps), he served in South Africa, twice receiving the Queen’s Medal during the Boer War. He subsequently undertook further training in Malta, and eventually became Commandant of a military hospital on that island. During WW1 he served in France and Flanders, gaining his D.S.O. as a result of his service during the Ypres and Hundred Days Campaigns. He retired to Leades after the war, and subsequently moved to Leemount, Coachford, where he died. He had been an important defence witness at the time of the Dripsey Ambush trials. (Source: ACR Heritage).