Wood, W I
WILLIAM ISAAC WOOD
Remembered with honour Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm): Plot VI, Row R, Grave 8.
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 11530 East Kent Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Walter and Maria (nee LUNT) WOOD; husband of Sarah Marguerite (nee KINDLYSIDES) WOOD.
His parents married 17 December 1876 in Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. Maria died 1917 aged 59; Walter died 1920 aged 64; both in the West Derby, Lancs, district; both buried in Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool.
William was born 1892 in Liverpool, and baptised 31 May 1892 at St Peter’s, Liverpool. He married 26 December 1913 at St Michael’s, Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in West Derby, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a butcher aged 18, he lived in Liverpool, with his parents and three siblings.
Service number
55824Rank
PrivateUnit
142nd CompanyRegiment
Date of death
24/12/1916Age at death
24Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)