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Flying Officer Thomas Clinton Stuart Wood

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Military service

Service number: J/11864
Age: 28
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 196 Sqdn.
Birth: November 6, 1914 Courtenay, British Columbia
Enlistment: August 14, 1941 British Columbia
Death: February 15, 1943 Over Cologne, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 175.
Additional information
Eldest son of Clinton Stuart and Mary Jane (nee Mouat) Wood of Campbell River, British Columbia.

The province of British Columbia honoured Flying Officer Wood by naming Stuart Wood Island in his honour. The Island is located in Moat Lake, Forbidden Plateau, Comox Land District, British Columbia.

He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph at Sandwick and on the Cenotaph at Campbell River, British Columbia.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 228 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom

During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.

The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:

IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE

In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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