Regiment: Scots Guards 2nd Battalion

BORN EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, SCOTLAND 1893. ENLISTED HULL, MAY 1915. TRAINED IN LONDON. SON OF JOHN BURGON & MARGARET ALICE BLACK. BROTHERS WILLIAM AND JAMES BURGON. SISTER MARGARET. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1909 AND HIS FATHER REMARRIED. HIS SECOND WIFE BEING MARY GARDENER AND IN ALL HIS FATHER HAD 14 CHILDREN. JOHN JR, MOVED FROM BERWICK […]

BORN LACEBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1885. SON OF CHARLES AND ELIZABETH DRURY, OF GRIMSBY. HUSBAND TO DEBORAH SHIPLEY (FORMERLY DRURY), OF PRESTON, HULL. WORKED AS A COUNTY COURT BALLIFF. HE LIVED IN PRESTON. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND BATTALION, SCOTS GUARDS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT 19TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 25/09/1918, AGED 33. […]

Harry Blanshard Wood was born on the 21st of June 1882 at Pocklington, North Yorkshire, and joined the Scots Guards on the 3rd of February 1903. After the outbreak of WW1, in August 1914, Harry Wood was recalled from the Army Reserve and from October 1914 served with the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. In the Autumn of 1915, Harry took p […]