The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant B V Wood

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Second Lieutenant Basil Vaughan WOOD, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, at the Battle of the Somme, 3rd July 1916, age 28.

1887 born Yalding, Kent, son of Edward Joshua and Ethel Vaughan Wood, of Torr House, Yealmpton, Devon.

Pupil at Oakham School, Rutland between 1900 and 1906.

28th August 1926, Probate - Basil Vaughan Wood, of Torr House, Yealmpton, Devon died 3rd July 1916, in France. Administration London 28th August to Edward Joshua Wood M.D. Effects £146 1s 10d.

30th November 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France /  Oakham School Chapel / Yalding War Memorial

London Gazette 2nd July 1915.

The appointment to temporary Second Lieutenancies of the under mentioned is antedated as follows.

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment),  6th (Service) Battalion - B: V. Wood. 14th January, 1915.