Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookc, O.T.C., Bristol, and a fourth brother, Yetric Wood, is a Midshipman R.N.R., training on H.M.S. Excellent at Portsmouth. [Illustration: =Leofric Wood.=] =WOOD, ROBERT=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., A. 1933), 161053, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WOOD, THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9935), 215158, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914. =WOOD, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 2300, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Arthur Wood, of 260, Oxford Street, Stepney, E., Bricklayer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late William Whale; _b._ Mile End Road, London, E., 12 Nov. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Square, White Horse Lane, and Cooper's Company School, Bow; was a Clerk at C. & E. Morton's, Ltd., Milwall; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the attack on Hill 70 during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ The Sergt. of his platoon wrote of him saying that "he fought like a man until the end, and was cheerful throughout." While at school he won the Junior County Scholarship 1906, and passed the Oxford Senior Local Exam. at the age of 16. [Illustration: =William Wood.=] =CARTER-WOOD, JOSEPH ALLAN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of Joseph Edmund Carter-Wood, of Skinburness Tower, Silloth, co. Cumberland, by his wife, Evelyn Alice, dau. of Brig.-Gen. Alexander William Adair, of Heatherton Park, Somerset, late Coldstream Guards, who served in the Crimea; _b._ London, 3 Nov. 1884; educ. at Mr. Burgess' School, Epsom, and Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 10 Oct. 1914, and promoted Lieut.; went to the Front, 22 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Buried in the military graveyard there. His Commanding Officer, Col. Pereira, wrote: "Your son had only been in the battn. about a week, but in that short time his company commander, Capt. Leigh-Bennett, had found him a most useful and invaluable officer"; and Col. R. Drummond Hay: "For even though your boy had been in the regt. such a short time he had shown what good metal he was made of, and in spite of his health was already a very valuable addition to our strength. Some few of our youngsters showed themselves born soldiers from the first, and he was one of the few." Lieut. Carter-Wood was a good landscape painter, and had had several pictures hung in the Royal Academy and other exhibitions; he was also a keen fisherman and game shot. [Illustration: =Joseph A. Carter-Wood.=] =WOODFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2050), 205828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WOODGATE, CHARLES ARTHUR=, R.N.R., Skipper, 217 W.S.A., H.M. steam-drifter Linsdell; reported missing after the sinking of the Linsdell by a mine, 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914. =WOODHOUSE, GEORGE=, A.B., J. 10624, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =WOODLAND, HERBERT EDWIN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26779, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WOODNUTT, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 11559, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of George Woodnutt, of 16, Brewer Street, Brighton; _b._ co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 4 March, 1915. Buried 500 yards past the Le Touret turning on right of Bethune-Richebourg Road _via_ Rue du Bois; _unm._ =WOODROFF, HENRY=, Private, No. 1426, 1 Coy. 14th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of the late James Woodroff by his wife, Jessie Sarah (27 E Block, Peabody Buildings, Shadwell, E.), dau. of James Maclachlan; _b._ Stepney, 12 April, 1883; educ. Broad Street School, Ratcliffe, E. Was employed for some years at a cork manufacturers, afterwards went to Australia, where he worked in an iron foundry. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 29 Nov. 1914, and died of fever, in the Base Hospital, Egypt, 19 July, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Henry Woodroff.=] =WOODROFFE, KENNETH HERBERT CLAYTON=, Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., 3rd _s._ of Henry Long Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife, Clara, 3rd dau. of the late Henry Clayton; _b._ Lewes, co. Sussex, 9 Dec. 1892; educ. Rose Hill School, Banstead, Marlborough College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (Classical Exhibitioner); obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridge University O.T.C. Oct. 1912, and was gazetted to the 6th Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. April, 1915; went to France early in Nov., being attd. at the Front to the 2nd Welsh, and was killed in action during an attack on the German trenches at Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 5 April-31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. Capt. Gilbey wrote: "Your son was killed yesterday in an attack near Neuve Chapelle. He was with the leading platoon, and was the man to get nearer the German front line trenches than any other. He was killed in the way that every soldier would wish to be killed, leading his platoon gallantly in the attack. His death was quite instantaneous; he was shot through the head. By his death I personally have lost a very good and true friend, and the regt. a fine and most gallant officer. At Festubert before Christmas he commanded one of our companies in an attack with great success, for which his name was included in our list of recommendations sent in to the Brigade. Later at Givenchy, against the German attack on 25 Jan., he brought up his platoon under heavy fire, leading his men most gallantly." At Marlborough College he was Senior Prefect. Capt. of the O.T.C., Athletic Champion, member (Capt. 1912) of the cricket XI, 1909-12; football XV and hockey XI. In his school days he was a good bat as well as bowler, and it was his all-round cricket and leadership that turned the match at Lord's against Rugby in 1912. When he went to Cambridge he was more or less content to concentrate his cricket on his bowling. It is exacting work to bowl on those plumb wickets at Fenner's, but the Hon. Harry Mullholland was satisfied with Woodroffe, and gave him his "Blue" as a freshman, 1913, and he took six wickets in his first (1913) Oxford and Cambridge match at Lord's. He played cricket as fast bowler for Hants C.C.C. in 1912 _v._ South Africans (5 wickets); and for Sussex C.C.C. in 1914. [Illustration: =Kenneth H. C. Woodroffe.=] =WOODROFFE, LESLIE, M.C.=, Capt., The Rifle Brigade, 2nd _s._ of Henry Long Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife, Clara, 3rd dau. of the late Henry Clayton; _b._ Lewes, co. Sussex, 17 Oct. 1885; educ. Junior House, Brighton College, Marlborough College, and University College, Oxford (Classical Scholar), and on leaving there became an assistant master at Shrewsbury School, where he |