The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H J Wood

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Commemorated Brockley & Ladywell Cemetery, Plot K/Con

Photograph by "Steve Johnson"

Inscription " HE BRAVELY ANSWERED DUTY'S CALL AND GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ONE AND ALL"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Private Herbert James WOOD, G/10673, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  died of wounds, 3 General Hospital, Le Treport, France, 3rd April 1918, age 25.

Born Deptford, Kent, only son of James John & Clara Amy Wood, of 69, St. John's Road, Deptford, Kent.

1911 Census - 69, St. John's Road, Deptford, SE - James John Wood, head, age 46, married, ironmonger, worker, born Deptford SE; Clara Amy Wood, wife, age 45, married 22 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Woodford, Essex; Mabel Amy Wood, daughter, age 20, single, born Deptford, SE; Herbert James Wood, son, age 18, single, ironmonger shop, worker. born Deptford SE.

Enlisted Deptford, Kent, age 22 years & 354 days, height 5ft 7½ inches, mole left breast, mole left cheek, two on neck.  Resided 50 Eden Street,  Kingston on Thames / 69, St. John's Road, Deptford, Kent. Formerly ironmongers assistant.

Home, 3rd November 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 19th September 1916; Home, 20th September 1916 to 15th March 1917; BEF, 16th March 1917 to 3rd April 1918.

3rd November 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

19th February 1916, Lewisham, married Beatrice May Crake,  7, Arabin Road, Brockley, London;

3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 3rd May 1916, Southampton, Embarked; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 11th July 1916, 139 Field Ambulance, defective vision; 16th July 1916 to duty; 9th August 1916, 139 Field Ambulance, indigestion; 19th August 1916, to Duty; 15th September 1916, wounded; 19th September 1916, gun shot wound hand left, buttock left, Hospital Ship Panama ex 9 General Hospital Rouen, to England; 20th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st October 1916, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham on Sea, Sussex; 27th February 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th March 1917, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th August 1917, wounded, barbed wire in knee, admitted 4 General Hospital, Camiens; 21st October 1917, Trouville 13 Con. Dep; 27th December 1917 to Battalion; 31st December 1917, joined Battalion In the Field; 17th February 1918 to 4th March 1918, leave to UK; 3rd April 1918, died of wounds, gun shot wound thigh left, wrist right.

Buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery, VI. G. 14B., Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France.