Wood,+Harry

Rank: Lance Corporal Service No: 4146 Date of Death: 15/09/1916 Regiment/Service: London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) 1st/21st Bn. Panel Reference Pier and Face 13 C. Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
 * Harry (Henry) Wood**

4146 Rifleman Harry Wood County of London - unit 3/21 - Embodied as a Rifleman from 4th June 1915 to 15th September 1916. County of London - unit 1/21 - Transferred as Rifleman from 15th June 1916. County of London - unit 1/21 - Appointed unpaid as Lance Corporal from 2nd August 1916. Served 1 year and 104 days until killed in action on 15th September 1916. Discharged approved at London January 10th 1917.
 * Service records:**

Former boxer, and former pupil at Keighley Trade and Grammar School (Keighley Boys Grammar School). Brother of Herbert Wood M.M.


 * Keighley News photograph and report dated 14th October 1916, Page 3/4:**



DENHOLME WELL KNOWN BOXER KILLED. Lance Corporal Harry Wood, of 38, Balmoral Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle, eldest surviving son of Mr. Hartley Wood, engineer to Messrs W & H Foster Ltd, Denholme Mills, was killed in action on September 15. Lance Corporal Wood joined the Boxers' Battalion (Surrey Rifles) in April 1915, and prior to enlisting was well known in Keighley, Newcaste and London boxing circles. His older brother, Rifleman Herbert Wood, of the Rifle Brigade (Petrograd Contingent), was killed at Hooge in 1915. The two brothers were born at Grunberg, Silesia. Lance Corporal Wood was 24 years of age, and leaves a widow and son. Writing to the Keighley News from Newcastle, Lance Corporal J. H. McKniff refers to the death of Lance Corporal Wood and says "He had only been out a few months and I thought I could not pay a last tribute better than by letting his many Keighley friends know of his glorious death. He had been looking forward at the end of the war to another meeting with Tommy Rowan, but he has now been counted out." Harry is believed to have fought over 60 professional boxing matches.