WOOD, CHARLES

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

Charles and Emma Wood

Yes

 

 

 

Where born

Shenstone, Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

3

When born

 

 

 

 

 

Address

2, Bradley Street

 

 

2a

 

2 Bradley Villas, Uttoxeter

 

 

 

3

Mount Pleasant, Staffordshire

 

 

 

3

Parents: 5, Paget Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs

Yes

 

 

 

29, Whitmore Cottages, World's End, Baschurch, Shrewsbury

 

 

 

 

Spouse

Ada Frances Wood

Yes

 

 

 

Yes

 

 

2a

 

Children

1

Yes

 

2a

 

Employment Before Joining up

Moulder at the Leighton Ironworks

 

 

2a

 

Messrs Bamfords, Uttoxeter

 

 

 

3

Where enlisted

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

3

Regiment

North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)

 

Yes

2a

3

Unit

6th Bn.

 

 

2a

 

1st /6th Bn

 

Yes

 

3

1st /6th (T.F.) Bn

 

 

 

3

‘G’ Company (outbreak of war)

 

 

 

3

‘B’ Company (at time of death)

 

 

 

1

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

2a

1, 3

Service Number

2573

 

Yes

 

1

2523

 

 

 

3

Date of Death

13 October 1915

 

Yes

2a

1, 3

Age at time of death

39

 

 

2a

 

40

Yes

 

 

 

Where Killed or died

France/Flanders

 

Yes

 

 

Loos – Hohenzollern Redoubt

 

 

2a

3

How he died

Killed in Action

 

Yes

2a

1, 3

Location of Grave or Memorial

Vermelles British Cemetery

Grave I. L. 13.

 

 

 

 

Uttoxeter Town War Memorial (Market Place)

 

 

 

3, 4

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

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].