Name
Charles Edmund Wood
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/03/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Adjt. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUQUISSART MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
H. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Edward John Wedge Wood and Lettice Wood (née Challinor), of Meece House, Stone, Staffs. Born in Watford.
Educated at Elstree Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Harrow and Sandhurst.
Wartime Service
Charles' name and picture appear in De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, the entry reads:
"Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, younger son of Edward John Wedg [sic] Wood, of Meece House, near Stone, Staffordshire, by his wife, Lettice, 3rd daughter of the late Charles Challinor, of Basford; born Watford, co. Herts, 23 Dec. 1884; educ. at Elstree Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 11 Apr. 1913, and was Adjutant to the 5th (Territorial) Battn. at Flint from 20 Oct. 1913 to Nov. 1914, when he left for France to join his own battn. which formed part of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, under General Sir Thomson Capper. He was acting Adjutant and 2nd in Command at the time of his death, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unmarried.
Buried at Fauquissart, near Laventie. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's Despatches of 31 May, 1915, being incorrectly described there as of the 2nd Battn. Capt. Wood was a keen and zealous officer, well spoken of by his Divisional General and all who came in contact with him. He was well known in the hunting field with the North Staffordshire and other packs."
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Jonty Wild
