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Private W C Wood

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Private William Charles WOOD, G/12467, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,   killed in action in the Battle of Menin Road,  Flanders France, 20th September 1917, age 32.

30th September 1885, born Warnham, Sussex, son of Robert Henry Wood, (gardener), and Lucy, (daughter of Charles Holland), of Roberts Lane, Warnham, Horsham, Sussex.

29th November 1885, Warnham, Sussex, baptism of William Charles  (gardener), & Lucy Wood, Roberts Lane, Warnham, Horsham, Sussex.  

Educated Warnham, Horsham, Sussex.

1911 Census - Falkland Park Gardens, South Norwood Hill, SE - Peter Rinstone, head, age 30, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Rockhampton, Surrey; Harry Emmerson, boarder, age 30, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Bealings, Suffolk; William Wood, boarder, age 25, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Warnham, Sussex; George Simmonds, boarder, age 22, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Croydon, Surrey; James Walsh, boarder, age 23, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Battersea, Surrey; William Oram, boarder, age 23, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Rotherfield, Sussex; Archibald Palmer, boarder, age 22, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Orpington, Kent; James Price, boarder, age 21, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Franklin, Isle of Wight; Alfred Moody, boarder, age 24, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Bromham, Wiltshire.

Enlisted  Sevenoaks, Kent, age 30 years & 3 months, height 5ft7½ inches, weight 155lbs, mass of cartilage on 4th rib, flat footed, bandy legged.  Resided The Bothy Weardale Manor, Brasted Chart, Kent. Formerly gardener.

Home 8th December 1915 to 2nd November 1916; BEF 3rd November 1916 to 21st February 1917; Home 22nd November 1917 to 13th June 1917; BEF 14th June 1917 to 20th September 1917.

8th December 1915, enlisted; 8th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 1st March 1916, mobilized; 8th March 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd November 1916, posted BEF; 4th November 1916, embarked / disembarked; 10th February 1917, wounded; 15th February 1917, Boulogne, 13 General Hospital, gun shot wound, neck; 20th February 1917, transferred to England, Hospital Ship, "Princess Elizabeth"; 22nd February 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd February 1917 to 7th April 1917, Military Hospital, Albert Hall, Nottingham, gun shot wound left side of neck; 27th April 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea; 26th May 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th June 1917, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd July 1917, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. 

30th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Robert Henry Wood, Roberts Lane, Warnham, Horsham, Sussex; Mother, none; Brothers - Robert Henry Wood, age 42, 31 Swindon Road, Horsham, Sussex; Sisters - Ruth Harriett Cocker, age 40, Rectory Cottage, Pulborough, Sussex; Annie Lucy Wood, age 38, Roberts Lane, Warnham, Horsham, Sussex; Alice Wood, age 36, Harbury Hall, near Leamington, Warckick; Florence Nellie Wood, age 25.

Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, XIX. C. 1., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated on Warnham War Memorial.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No. as G/12467; CWGC web site shows it as Q/12467.