Born April 5, 1895, in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. First Lieutenant, U. S. Field Artillery, 28th Division. Killed by shell, August 18, 1918, near Arcis-le-Ponsart, Marne. Buried Suresnes, Seine. ...Of his death General Price writes: "As his commanding officer I can not find words to express the sense of loss we all felt, the realization by all of his sterling worth, his value as an officer and his promised value as a citizen. Thoughtful, unselfish, kind and brave, he died as I believe he would, could he have chosen, facing the enemy in battle, fearless and with a sublime confidence in the future life which his associates well knew he had. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55953164) When the Woodwards’ son, Henry Howard “Houston” Woodward, died in World War I..., Oakley did commemorative paintings of the children for the Woodwards. (http://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/2016/06/08/violet-oakley-and-the-woodward-family-collection-at-woodmere/)