BORN HULL 1896. SON OF CATHERINE GRIMES & JOSEPH NEVET WOOD. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 5, PROVIDENCE PLACE, SPRING STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS), 17, HOPE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, ROWLAND TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A RIVETTER. HIS FATHER SERVED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS DURING WW1.
HE HAD ONE BROTHERS, JAMES AND THREE SISTERS. A BLUNDELL’S PAINT LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 595, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS 36267, OF THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/04/1917, AGED 21. BURIED AT HENIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS MOTHER, KATE. HE LEFT SISTERS, CATHERINE AND MARY WINIFRED WOOD.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JAMES WOOD, 12117, 7TH EYR, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 07/07/1916, AGED 18.
THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON THE HULL BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, ROPER STREET, HULL. AND ON THE ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL.
NB: THREE J WOODS SERVED AT MARY ELLENS TERRACE. ST PAULS STREET.
