Name
Benjamin Herbert Woods
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/01/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15049
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
Plot 4. Row A. Grave 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Gilston Village Memorial
Not on the High Wych memorials
Pre War
Benjamin was born in High Wych, Herts on the 19th
September 1889 one of three children born to Thomas and Jane Woods. In 1911 he
was living with his widowed Mother at Pye Corner, High Wych and working as a
Gardener Domestic.
Wartime Service
Benjamin joined the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
and arrived in France with the rest of the Battalion on the 30th July 1915.
During 1916 and 1917 the Battalion fought in the Battles of The Somme, Arras
and Third Ypres. On the 16th January 1918 the Battalion were in training behind
the lines when a Drummer was killed when a barn collapsed, Benjamin may have
been the man Killed.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
Paul Johnson
