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
Wilgric, 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 remained until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He
had received a commission as Lieut. (unattd. List, T.F.), 1 July, 1910,
and was in the Shrewsbury School O.T.C., and immediately volunteered
for foreign service. He was gazetted Capt. 8th Rifle Brigade, 27 Dec.
1914; went to France in May, 1915; was severely wounded at Hooge in
July, and was only able to return to his regt. 1 June, 1916; was again
wounded on the day of his arrival, and died in hospital from these
wounds on the 4th; _unm._ Buried near Bethune. He was awarded
the Military Cross for gallantry in the field at Hooge, 1915. While
at Marlborough College he was head of the school, and was in the
cricket XI and football XV; at Oxford he took a first-class in Mods,
and a second class in Lt. Hum. His two brothers, Kenneth and Sidney
Woodroffe, V.C., were also killed in action (see their notices.)
[Illustration: =Leslie Woodroffe.=]
=WOODROFFE, SIDNEY CLAYTON, V.C.=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service)
Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 4th and yst. _s._ of Henry Long
Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife,
Clara, dau. of the late Henry Clayton; _b._ Lewes, co. Sussex,
17 Dec. 1895; educ. Rose Hill School, Banstead; Marlborough College,
gained a Classical Scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted
2nd Lieut., 8th Rifle Brigade, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France 25 May,
1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 30 July, 1915;
_unm._ He was awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 6
Sept. 1915] “For most conspicuous bravery on 30 July, 1915, at Hooge.
The enemy having broken through the centre of our front trenches,
consequent on the use of burning liquids, this officer’s position
was heavily attacked with bombs from the flank and subsequently from
the rear, but he managed to defend his post until all his bombs were
exhausted, and then skilfully withdrew his remaining men. This very
gallant officer immediately led his party forward in a counter-attack
under an intense rifle and machine-gun fire, and was killed whilst in
the act of cutting the wire obstacles in the open.” At Marlborough he
was Senior Prefect, Capt. of the O.T.C., and member of the football XV
(1912–13–14), hockey XI and cricket XI. Lieut.-Col. R. C. Maclachlan
wrote: “Your younger boy was simply one of the bravest of the brave,
and the work he did that day will stand out as a record hard to beat;
later I will try to get you a more or less definite account. When the
line was attacked and broken on his right he still held his trench,
and only when the Germans were discovered to be in rear of him did he
leave it. He then withdraw his remaining men very skilfully right away
to a flank and worked his way alone back to me to report. He finally
brought his command back and then took part in the counter-attack. He
was killed out in front, in the open, cutting the wire to enable the
attack to be continued. This is the bald statement of his part of that
day’s action. He risked his life for others right through the day and
finally gave it for the sake of his men. He was a splendid type of
young officer, always bold as a lion, confident and sure of himself
too. The loss he is to me personally is very great, as I had learnt to
appreciate what a sterling fine lad he was. His men would have followed
him anywhere.” His elder brothers, Lieut. K. H. C. Woodroffe and
Captain L. Woodroffe, were both killed in action (see their notices).
[Illustration: =Sidney Clayton Woodroffe.=]
=WOODROFFE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., 8842 (R.F.R. Ch. B.
816), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WOODS, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, Chatham, S.S. 105687,
R.F.R., B. 8977, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=WOODS, BASIL HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Lancs. Field Coy.
Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder surviving _s._ of William Henry
Woods, of Ravenstone, Hale, Cheshire, Mechanical Engineer, by his wife,
Norah, dau. of Charles Greville Williams, F.R.S., F.C.S.; _b._
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester, 18 Aug. 1891; educ. Repton School
(where he was a Sergt. in the O.T.C.), and Oriel College, Oxford,
was given a commission in the Reserve of Officers, which he resigned
early in 1914 to take one in the East Lancashire Territorial Division,
R.E., 16 April, 1914; went to Egypt with the East Lancashire Division
in Sept. following, and was killed along with a number of N.C.Os. and
men, 17 Dec. 1914, while on active service on the Suez Canal, by an
explosion on a launch, supposed to be caused by a German mine, and was
buried with full military honours in the Suez Cemetery.
[Illustration: =Basil Hamilton Woods.=]
=WOODS, CHARLES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1676U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WOODS, EDWARD WILFRED=, Signal Boy, J. 24461, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WOODS, MAURICE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5005A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WOODWARD, WILLIAM=, Private. R.M.L.I., Ch./11382, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WOODWARD, WILLIAM BERNARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4608),
S.S. 103734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast
of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.