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Military service
Service number:
285312
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
15th Bn.
Birth:
July 1, 1894
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private William Wood
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Badge
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line. -
Shoulder patch
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line. -
Badge
Cap Badge 220th Bn. Private Wood was a member of the 220th Bn (York Rangers) before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Captain (retired) victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
The 15th Batallion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as “The Crow’s Nest”. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured the Crow’s Nest on 1 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Service Record
Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Service Record
Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Badge
Pte William Wood originally joined the 220th Battalion before first being transferred to the 134th Battalion and finally to the 15th Battalion. Cap badge of the 134th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath -
Photo of William Wood
Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath -
Group Photo
Photograph of Pte William Wood (left) in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath -
Group Photo
Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 220th Battalion before being transferred to 134th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 525 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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