Name
John Alfred Wood
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
213
Army Cyclists Corps
Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STOCKTON-ON-TEES (DURHAM ROAD) CEMETERY
Plot A3, RowP, Grave 17.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Stockton-on-Tees War Memorial, County Durham
Pre War
Son of Matthew and Mary Ann (nee McNAULTY) WOOD; husband of Ada FAY (formerly WOOD, nee JONES) of Middlesbrough.
His parents married 1891 in the South Shields, Co Durham, district. Mary died 1903 in the Sunderland, Co Durham, district aged 37.
John was born 1895 in Jarrow-on-Tyne, Co Durham, and married 1 February 1916 at Stockton-on-Tees Registry Office; they had one child. He resided in Stockton-on-Tees. Ada remarried 1919 in the Stockton district to Alfred FAY, and died 1939 in the Middlesbrough district aged 42.
On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a labourer aged 15, he was a boarder in Middlesbrough, with his widowed father and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Middlesbrough, Yorks, 7 November 1912 for 6 years’ service with the Durham Light Infantry, Private 8467: an unskilled foundry labourer aged 17, 5’2½” tall, C of E.
He was mobilised at Newcastle 5 August 1914, and transferred to the Army
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
