The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal E E Wood

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Lance Corporal Ernest Edgar WOOD, L/9949, 2nd  Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 27th July 1915,  age 23.

Born  West Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent,  son of Ernest Edward and Edith Wood, Bennett's Cottages, East Farleigh, Kent.

Formerly served 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance.

Enlisted Maidstone Kent, age 18  years & 1 month, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 128lbs, ruddy complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair, scar on front of neck, small scar inner side right knee.  Resided East Farleigh Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Home 10th January 1910 to 28th January 1912; India, 29th January 1912, to 27th July 1915.

10th January 1910, enlisted, Rifle Depot, Rifle Brigade, Service No.3599; 14th January 1910, Winchester; 22nd February 1910, 3rd Class Certificate of Education; 16th April 1910, Dublin; 25th May 1910, posted 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade; 28th November 1910, 2nd Cass Certificate of Education; 3rd October 1911, Colchester; 29th January 1912, posted 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade; 30th January 1912, Rawalpindi; 1st August 1912, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st August 1912, posted 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st August 1912, Cherat; 20th November 1912, Multan; 30th May 1913, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 12th August 1914, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 30th August 1914, passed Class of Instruction in swimming; 25th July 1915, Nasirayah, admitted to Hospital, gun shot wound chest, severe.

7th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Ernest Edward Wood, Bennett's Cottages, East Farleigh, Kent; Mother, Edith Wood, Bennett's Cottages, East Farleigh, Kent; Frederick P W Wood, age 29, 8793, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Mesopotamia; *Frank L Wood, age 18, J87413 HMS Thunderer; Alfred Henry Wood, age 13, Bennett's Cottages, East Farleigh, Kent; Sisters - Alice Oliver, age 31, The Castle, Farnham, Surrey; Edith Wood, age 23, 6 Greeves? Row, East Farleigh, Kent; Gertrude Wood, age 21, Glenroy Kennington, Ashford, Kent; Sisters Half blood - Annie Marden?, age 33, on mothers side, 62 Hermitage Farm, Wateringbury

Commemorated  at Basra Memorial,  Panel 29, Iraq. and at Parish Church of St. Mary, East Farleigh, Kent

Inscription - "THY WILL BE DONE"

Photograph by "Paul Narramore"

*Stoker 1st Class Frank Lewis Wood, HMS Vivid, Royal Navy, Service No.SS/124877, died 22nd January 1920, age 18. Son of son of Ernest Edward and Edith Sarah Wood, Bennett's Cottages, East Farleigh, Kent.

Buried St Mary Churchyard, East Farleigh, New Ground 240 (North East Part).