Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookcer, Capt. V. C. de Crespigny, wrote: "He was a brave man and died a soldier's death, and I cannot say how sorry we all are. He had had narrow escapes, having had amongst other things, a bullet through his clothes, and as his Company Commander I knew him well. Good men such as he are scarce. When sick before, he refused to go to hospital till ordered to do so." [Illustration: =Robert Bertie Wombwell.=] =WOOD, ALFRED JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1817, 2/9th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Arthur Henry Wood, of 29, Devonshire Road, Pinner Road, Harrow, Civil Servant, by his wife, Ellen Elizabeth, dau. of Alfred Brown of Roxeth, Harrow; _b._ Finsbury Park, London, 17 June, 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow; was a Dental Mechanic; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne, was attd. 2/10th Middlesex, went to the Dardanelles, 18 July, 1915; took part in the heavy fighting at Suvla Bay during Sept. 1915, and died in Alexandria Government Hospital, 16 Oct. from dysentery, contracted after six weeks in the trenches; _unm._ He was buried at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria. [Illustration: =Alfred Joseph Wood.=] =WOOD, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER=, Plumber's Mate, M. 5490, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WOOD, CHARLES EDMUND=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of Edward John Wedg Wood, of Meece House, near Stone, Staffordshire, by his wife, Lettice, 3rd dau. of the late Charles Challinor, of Basford; _b._ Watford, co. Herts, 23 Dec. 1884; educ. at Elstree Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs., Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 11 April, 1913, and was Adjutant to the 5th (Territorial) Battn. at Flint from 20 Oct. 1913 to Nov. 1914, when he left for France to join his own battn., which formed part of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, under General Sir Thomson Capper. He was acting Adjutant and 2nd in Command at the time of his death, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried at Fauquissart, near Laventie. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's Despatches of 31 May, 1915, being incorrectly described there as of the 2nd Battn. Capt. Wood was a keen and zealous officer, well spoken of by his Divisional General and all who came in contact with him. He was well known in the hunting field with the North Staffordshire and other packs. [Illustration: =Charles Edmund Wood.=] =WOOD, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 11863, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WOOD, EDGAR ADRIAN=, Signalman (R.F.R., B. 2104), 206288, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WOOD, FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10376), 204911, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WOOD, GEORGE DOUGLAS HARRY=, Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, and A.D.C. to Capt. Kennedy, H.M.S. India, yr. _s._ of the late George Wood, of Gordon Terrace, Edinburgh, Wholesale Boot Factor, by his wife, Annie Champion (9, Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Capt. William Bastard, of Padstow, Cornwall; _b._ Edinburgh, 7 Dec. 1897; educ. Edinburgh Academy and H.M.S. Conway; was appointed Midshipman (temp.), R.N.R., 24 March, 1915, and posted to H.M.S. India, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 8 Aug. 1915. [Illustration: =George Douglas H. Wood.=] =WOOD, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9617), S.S. 106983, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WOOD, HARRY=, Private, No. 5562, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of John Wood, Cloth Drawer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of James Broxombe; _b._ Burley, Leeds; educ. Church Schools there; enlisted 31 Aug. 1904; passed into the Reserve, 1907, then went into the Police Force, North Riding, at South Bank; was called up on mobilisation; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; was wounded at the Aisne, 14 Sept., and was home for six months, returned to the Front 19 April, 1915; was again wounded at the Battle of Festubert, and died at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert two days previously. He was buried at Boulogne. Private Wood _m._ at Middlesbrough, 1908, Edith Mary Ellen (4, Rockcliff Street, Ventnor Street, Kirkstall Road, Leeds), dau. of John Hughes, and had three children: John Henry, _b._ 26 Oct. 1908; Rowland George, _b._ 11 Feb. 1912; and Ivy, _b._ .. June, 1910. [Illustration: =Harry Wood.=] =WOOD, JAMES MACGREGOR=, Private, No. 7941, 2nd Battn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, eldest _s._ of James Wood, of 11, Maxwell Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of William Fraser, of New York; _b._ Edinburgh, 20 July, 1882; educ. North Merchiston, South Morningside and Bruntsfield Board School there; joined the 3rd Royal Scots, was for some time in the 8th Provisional Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, joining the 1st Battn. in Jan. 1900. He was three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve and was a Postman at the G.P.O. in Edinburgh when war was declared; went to the Front in Aug. 1914, with the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 10 Nov. 1914. He was a member of St. Matthew's Parish Church, Edinburgh. Wood _m._ at Morningside, 4 Oct. 1909, Martha (25, Stewart Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of Patrick Currie, of Ballymena, co. Down, and had two children: James, _b._ 27 March, 1911; and Robert MacGregor, _b._ Sept. _d._ Oct. 1912. [Illustration: =James MacGregor Wood.=] =WOOD, JOHN=, Chief Stoker, 279879, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WOOD, JOSEPH=, Acting Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4528), 305734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WOOD, LEOFRIC=, Private, No. 2049, 11th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of Frederic Wood, of Wrington, co. Somerset, Solicitor, by his wife, Amy Elizabeth, dau. of George Pizey, late of Clevedon, Somerset, M.R.C.S.; _b._ Wrington, 22 Aug. 1894; educ. Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare; was for some time in the Accountant's Office of the British Imperial Tobacco Co. at Bedminster, but in April, 1912, went out to Western Australia; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 27 Jan. 1915, did three months' training at Perth; sailed for Fremantle with the 5th reinforcement for the 11th Battn. in April, arrived at Cairo towards the end of May, and landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula 15 June, and after six weeks in the trenches died from dysentery, 2 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Three of his brothers are with the Colours, Dubric as a motor-cyclist despatch rider, with the Expeditionary Force in France, Godric with the R.E., in France, and Wilgri |