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WOOD, ERNEST JOHN
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CWGC |
SDGW |
Uttoxeter Advertiser |
Other |
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Parents |
Mother: Eliza Wood |
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Father: The late William Wood; husband of Frances Maud Wood, of Scounslow Green, Uttoxeter, Staffs. |
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Where born |
Kingstone, Staffordshire |
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3 |
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When born |
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Address |
Mother: Loxley Green, Uttoxeter |
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Church Street, Uttoxeter |
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2c |
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21, Church Street, Uttoxeter |
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2a, 2b |
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Spouse |
Yes |
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2c |
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Children |
1 little daughter who had never seen her father |
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2c |
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Employment Before Joining up |
Worked for Messrs. Woolliscroft and Company, Uttoxeter |
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2c |
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When enlisted |
August 1916 |
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2c |
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Where enlisted |
Uttoxeter |
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Regiment |
North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) |
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2a, 2b, 2c |
3, 5 |
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Unit |
2nd/5th Bn. |
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2nd/5th (T.F) Bn. |
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3 |
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5th Bn. |
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2c |
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Rank |
Private |
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2a, 2b, 2c |
3, 5 |
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Service Number |
242086 |
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3, 5 |
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Date of Death |
21 March 1918 |
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2b, 2c |
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Age at time of death |
26 |
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Where Killed or died |
Bullecourt – Arras area |
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How he died |
Missing |
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2b, 2c |
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Killed in Action |
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2c |
3 |
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Location of Grave or Memorial |
Arras Memorial for the Missing Bay 8 |
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Uttoxeter Town (Market Place) |
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1. 3 |
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Bramshall St. Lawrence Churchyard |
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3 |
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Awards |
Victory Medal – page 2629 |
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Ernest joined the army in August 1916[2c].
In January 1917 he was serving at Ballykinlear and had received a Christmas parcel from Uttoxeter[3].
At some time after that he went to France.
He was wounded twice in 1917[2, 2ca].
The first occasion was in April 1917[3], but we know that he returned to France in September 1917[2a]. His wounds must have been quite serious on the second occasion: in October 1917 he was reported wounded ‘during the recent fighting in France’ and he didn’t return to the front until February 1918[2b, 2c], just a month before his death. Source 3 states that his wounds had been in his right shoulder and thigh[3]. He was at home on leave in the middle of October 1917[3].
He went missing on the 21st of March 1918, the opening day of the German Spring Offensives, but it was not until December 1918 that his family received official notification that he was classed as missing and thought killed.
They had to wait until May 1919 for official confirmation that he had been killed[2c].
Ernest has no known grave and his name is recorded on panel 8 of the Arras Memorial[1].
He is also commemorated on the War Memorial in Bramshall Churchyard
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