The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private V H Wood

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Private Victor Henry WOOD, G/13091, 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Australian General Hospital, Rouen, Flanders France, 22nd October 1916, age 19.

Born Pembury, Kent, son of James and Hannah Wood, Great Lodge, Tonbridge, Kent.

1911 Census - 1 Andrews Road, High Brooms, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - James Wood, head, age 55, married, labourer, farm, Corporation Tunbridge Wells, worker, born Sanderstead, Surrey; Hannah Wood, wife, age 54, married 35 years, 10 children, 8 still alive, born St Neots, Huntingdon; Victor Henry Wood, son, age 14, school, born Pembury, Tunbridge Wells; Donald Wood, grandson, age 10, school, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 18 years & 283 days, height 5ft 1 inch.  Resided Great Lodge, Tonbridge, Kent. Formerly gardener. Note - on enlistment diagnosed with elephantitis which requires treatment.

Home 19th January 1916 to 12th September 1916; BEF 13th September 1916 to 22nd October 1916.

19th January 1916, enlisted; 26th January 1916, to Army Reserve; 4th April 1916, mobilized; 14th April 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th April 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th September 1916, Infantry Base Depot; 13th September 1916, embarked; 29th September 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & joined Battalion In the Field; 7th October 1916, wounded in action; 18th October 1916, Australian General Hospital, Rouen, wounded, gun shot wound to the head, fractured skull, dangerously ill.

4th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, James Wood, Great Lodge, Tonbridge, Kent; Mother, Hannah Wood, Great Lodge, Tonbridge, Kent; Brothers - James Wood, age 39, 83 Malham Road, Forest Hill, SE; Sisters - Gertrude L Verrall, age 42, 47 Nursery Road, Tunbridge Wells; Alice M Briggs, age 40, 41 Rochdale Road, Tunbridge Wells; Flora Dadsoll?, age 37, 43 Morris Road, Lewes, Sussex; Annie Strand, age 34, Church? Whitfield, Dover; Adelaide C? Milton, age 32, 54 Ontario Street, Blantford?, Ontario, Canada; Edith M Dadson, age 27, Lashburn Saska' Canada.

Buried at  St Sever Cemetery, B. 12. 19., Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Commemorated Tunbridge Wells War Memorial.