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{{Personnel
|id=1083
|Surname and forenames=Woof David
|Army number=4454585
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, but probably early 1939.  Posted to the ? 9th Battalion.  Posted to the ? 12th Battalion 1/9/1939. 
Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.?  Served Iceland?  Served Normandy?  Transferred to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 24/8/44, Auth: Part II Order TS 91/44.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 21/3/1946.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not known.
|Age=(At time of death)Not known.  
|Company/Battery=A Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Home address=63, Regent St. Gateshead.
|Source table=1TS
}}

IN the War Office 1942 "missing" exercise it was claimed that no trace could be found of Private Woof.  The limited information in the Black Watch Enlistment Books is summarised above and makes no mention of him having been a PoW, unlike so many of his comrades.  Help from the family is required, together with the details from his Service Record in order to clarify his military history.  He is not mentioned in the Battalion War Diary so much of the information above is speculation.  His transfer to the Argylls may have been at the disbandment of the 1st Tyneside Scottish.