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Private Charles WOOD, G/20198, 1st Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th October 1917.

Born Marylebone, Middlesex, son of Henry Charles & Elizabeth Wood.

1911 Census - 16 Frederick Street, St Johns Wood, London NW - Henry Charles Wood, head, age 54, married, Paver, Boro' Council, worker, born Portland Town, St Marylebone, London NW; Elizabeth Wood, wife, age 51, married 28 years, 9 children, 5 still alive, born Suffolk; Henry Lavers Wood, son, age 24, single, postman GPO NW, born St Marylebone, London NW;John Wood, son, age 22, single, tiler, Bowdenwise? Company, Pratt Street, worker, born St Marylebone, London NW; Charles Wood, son, age 13, school, born  St Marylebone, London NW; Elizabeth Wood, daughter, age 10, school, born St Marylebone, London NW.

Enlisted  Marylebone, Middlesex, age 18 years & 189 days, height 5ft 1½ inches, weight 111lbs, mole lower part of back & middle loin, scare left forehead. Resided 33 Borrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, Marylebone, Middlesex. Formerly bootmaker.

1st March 1916 to 9th October 1917; BEF 10th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

1st March 1916, enlisted; 2nd March 1916 to Army Reserve; 12th June 1917, mobilized; 12th June 1917, posted 1st City of London Regiment, Service No.204817; 10th October 1917, posted BEF; 12th October 1917, Southampton embarked; 13th October 1917, Havre, disembarked; 13th October 1917, Havre, 7th Infantry Base Depot; 16th October 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th October 1917, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st October 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 26th October 1917, posted missing.

24th June 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 5/11 a week,  payable to mother will cease.

8th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, unmarried; Father, Henry Charles Wood, 33 Borrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood; Mother, Elizabeth Wood, 33 Borrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood; Brothers - Henry L Wood, age 33, 33 Lyme Street, Camden Town, NW; Sisters - Mary Ann Wood, age 36, 118? Turner Street, Bermondsey; Elizabeth Wood, age 19, 14 Onslow Square?, South Bermondsey?

Commemorated  at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show Service No. as G20198; CWGC web site shows it as 30198.