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Son of William Henry and Augusta Louise Wood, of Toronto, Ontario.
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Private Herbert George Wood
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Private Herbert George Wood
Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR.
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Private Herbert George Wood
Sons of England Benefit Society: a notice of the December 29th, 1923 dedication and unveiling at University & College Streets (original location), detail from an S.O.E. membership certificate, and detail from the base of the Toronto Memorial.
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Private Herbert George Wood
Private Herbert George Wood was one of many of the 3rd Infantry Battalion killed in the action at Regina Trench on October 8, 1916 near Courcelette, France. The 3rd Battalion lost 13 of 14 Officers during the assault that day and 396 of 481 Other Ranks. They marched back to Albert on the 9th and on October 10th the 4th Division relieved the 1st and 3rd Divisions on the Somme. Of the 72 men on the Vimy Memorial for the 3rd Battalion who were KIA on October 8, 1916 at that location (Map 57c Sector M14 Grid d.4.2), only one had attested to the 124th Infantry Battalion (from the Governor Generals Body Guard). Private George Herbert Wood is the only man to meet the criteria of the remains exhumed at 57c M14 d.2.7 and buried in Plot 13 Row U Grave 9 at Ovillers Military Cemetery.
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Herbert George Wood before shipping out at his parent's home in Toronto
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Private Herbert George Wood
Herbert George Wood, riding his bike at the Toronto Exhibition
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Private Herbert George Wood
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)
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Private Herbert George Wood
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR.
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Sons of England Benefit Society: a notice of the December 29th, 1923 dedication and unveiling at University & College Streets (original location), detail from an S.O.E. membership certificate, and detail from the base of the Toronto Memorial.
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Private Herbert George Wood was one of many of the 3rd Infantry Battalion killed in the action at Regina Trench on October 8, 1916 near Courcelette, France. The 3rd Battalion lost 13 of 14 Officers during the assault that day and 396 of 481 Other Ranks. They marched back to Albert on the 9th and on October 10th the 4th Division relieved the 1st and 3rd Divisions on the Somme. Of the 72 men on the Vimy Memorial for the 3rd Battalion who were KIA on October 8, 1916 at that location (Map 57c Sector M14 Grid d.4.2), only one had attested to the 124th Infantry Battalion (from the Governor Generals Body Guard). Private George Herbert Wood is the only man to meet the criteria of the remains exhumed at 57c M14 d.2.7 and buried in Plot 13 Row U Grave 9 at Ovillers Military Cemetery.
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Herbert George Wood before shipping out at his parent's home in Toronto
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Herbert George Wood, riding his bike at the Toronto Exhibition
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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)
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 184 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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