WOOD

		Source
		CWGC^[1]	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Henry Wood	Yes
Parents	Mr. & Mrs. H. Wood				2
Position in the family	Brother of Charles Wood, who was also killed			4c
Where born	Uttoxeter		Yes
When born	Between 1891 and 18935				5
Address	Parents: 1 New Street, Uttoxeter				2
Address	Uttoxeter		Yes	4a
Spouse
Children
Employment Before Joining up	Employed by Mr. Weaver, of the High Wood, Uttoxeter			4a, 4d	2
Where enlisted	Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire		Yes		2
Former service	7th Bn., North Staffordshire Regiment				2
Regiment at time of death	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Ye	Yes	4d	2
Unit at time of death	1^st Bn.	Yes	Yes	4d	2
Rank at time of death	Private	Yes	Yes	4a, 4b, 4c, 4d	2
Service Number at time of death	16808	Yes	Yes		2
Date of Death	31 August 1916	Yes	Yes	4a, 4c	2
Age at time of death	23			4a
Age at time of death	25	Yes
Where Killed or died	France/Flanders		Yes		2
Where Killed or died	Somme - Delville Wood			4c
How he died	Killed in Action		Yes
Location of Grave or Where commemorated	Thiepval Memorial for the Missing - Pier and Face 14 B and 14 C.	Yes			2,3
Location of Grave or Where commemorated	Uttoxeter Town (Market Place)				2,3
Awards

He was a son of Henry Wood and brother of Sapper Charles Wood (Royal Engineers), who was also killed.

Before he joined-up he was employed by Mr. Weaver, of the High Wood, Uttoxeter[4a].

He enlisted 18 months before his death^[2,4a], serving with the 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment^[2] in the Dardanelles campaign, where he contracted frostbite^{[2, 4a]}. He spent some time in hospital recovering^{[2, 4a]}.

Charles went through the first day of the Somme with his battalion at Gommecourt Wood. Charles was wounded, while many other Uttoxeter men were killed. On the 12^th July 1916 the Uttoxeter Advertiser reported that he had been wounded^[4d], but gave no details.

He was one of several Uttoxeter men who were killed in action in Delville Wood a little less than two months later. Charles has no known grave. A separate article describes the events leading up to his death and those of the others.

Delville Wood is in the Somme area of Flanders and is now preserved as a memorial to the thousands of people who fought and died there.

William Wood has no known grave. For all anyone knows, he may still be there with the hundreds of British, South African and German soldiers who still lie buried in the trenches and shell-holes in the wood.

His brother, Charles Wood, also served during the war^[2].and was lying ill in hospital when news of Charles’s death was received^[4a].


Delville Wood is now a beautiful and peaceful spot, teeming with wildlife. Beneath its tranquil appearance, however, it still carries the scars of the trenches and shelling of the Great War. The zig-zagged depression in the foreground of this picture is the remains of one old trench-line.

	William Wood is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing