Name
Herbert Charles Woods
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/1187
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 49 and 51.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Northchurch memorials, Chalfont St Peters, Bucks
Pre War
Herbert enlisted in Middlesex in Oct 1910 as a Private TF/1187 in 1/8 Battalion Middlesex Regt as a Territorial soldier.
Wartime Service
Following the outbreak of The Great War Herbert volunteered volunteered for Overseas Service, the Battalion was posted to Gibraltar on 9 Sep 1914 and returned to UK on 15 Feb 1915. On 9 Mar 1915 he went to France with his Battalion joining the BEF. He was reported Missing after action on 26 Apr 1915 at Zonnebekke, Ypres.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £3 and Arrears paid to his widow Margaret M.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/first-world-war-database
