WOOD, CHARLES
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CWGC |
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Uttoxeter Advertiser |
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Parents |
Charles and Emma Wood |
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Where born |
Shenstone, Staffordshire |
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3 |
When born |
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Address |
2, Bradley Street |
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2 Bradley Villas, Uttoxeter |
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Mount Pleasant, Staffordshire |
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3 |
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Parents: 5, Paget Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs |
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29, Whitmore Cottages, World's End, Baschurch, Shrewsbury |
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Spouse |
Ada Frances Wood |
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Yes |
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2a |
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Children |
1 |
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2a |
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Employment Before Joining up |
Moulder at the Leighton Ironworks |
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2a |
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Messrs Bamfords, Uttoxeter |
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3 |
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Where enlisted |
Uttoxeter |
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Regiment |
North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) |
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2a |
3 |
Unit |
6th Bn. |
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2a |
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1st /6th Bn |
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3 |
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1st /6th (T.F.) Bn |
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3 |
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‘G’ Company (outbreak of war) |
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3 |
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‘B’ Company (at time of death) |
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1 |
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Rank |
Private |
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2a |
1, 3 |
Service Number |
2573 |
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1 |
2523 |
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3 |
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Date of Death |
13 October 1915 |
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2a |
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Age at time of death |
39 |
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2a |
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40 |
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Where Killed or died |
France/Flanders |
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Yes |
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Loos – Hohenzollern Redoubt |
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2a |
3 |
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How he died |
Killed in Action |
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2a |
1, 3 |
Location of Grave or Memorial |
Vermelles British Cemetery Grave I. L. 13. |
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Uttoxeter Town War Memorial (Market Place) |
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3, 4 |
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Awards |
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He joined the 6th North Staffordshire Regiment with a large batch of recruits taken from the town after a rally held at the Town Hall in the early stages of the war[2a]. At the time he was employed as a moulder at the Leighton Ironworks[2a].
Source 3 says that he left for the front on the 14th of August 1914. This was just 10 days after war was declared and makes him one of the Old Contemptibles.
He was reported wounded after the charge on the Hohenzollern Redoubt at Loos on 13th October 1915[2a, 3], but his family heard nothing more until early December, when they received official notification that he had been killed[2a].
He left a widow and child[2a].