Hugh Edward Wood

Forenames

Hugh Edward AWMM

Surname

Wood AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/959 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

18th June 1895

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 June 2023 - Military Record

Place of birth

Auckland

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 June 2023 - Military Record

Birth notes

son of George Samuel & Isabella WOOD

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 June 2023 - Military Record & Gisborne Cemetery Records

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Valley Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

G.S. Wood (father), Valley Road, Mangapapa, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/959 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 30 or HMNZT 31 or HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM C Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM
• HMNZT 30. Vessel: Maunganui
  Public - Christopher James - Friend - 28 February 2018 - Military records

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Believed killed with his entire platoon ( mass grave ) by ( friendly ) shell fire
  Public - Chris - Other relative - 20 April 2018 - Photograph of grave in Sailly Au Bois shows 7 gravestones all together. Note about "friendly" shell from Family verbal history

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of G. S. Wood, of Valley Rd., Mangapapa, Gisborne, New Zealand.

He is commemorated on the bell Beaumont Hamel given by Norman Gordon De Cent and Marjorie L.F. De Cent for the National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. Kenneth Owen De Cent is commemorated on the same bell.

Next of Kin: Mr G. S. Wood, Mangapapa, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

15 May 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Death notes

DE CENT.—In loving remembrance of Captain Ken De Cent, died of wounds at Walton Hospital on the 12th April, 1918, and of Rifleman Hugh Wood, killed in action in France on the 15th May, 1918, loved brothers of Mr. and Mr. De Cent, Trentham.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 June 2023 - IN MEMORIAM.
EVENING POST, VOLUME XCVII, ISSUE 113, 15 MAY 1919, PAGE 1

Cemetery

Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM I. H. 3. AWMM

Obituary

DE CENT.—In loving remembrance of Captain Ken De Cent, died of wounds at Walton Hospital on the 12th April, 1918, and of Rifleman Hugh Wood, killed in action in France on the 15th May, 1918, loved brothers of Mr. and Mrs. De Cent, Trentham.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 February 2024 - EVENING POST, VOLUME XCVII, ISSUE 113, 15 MAY 1919, PAGE 1

Memorial name

• National War Memorial Carillon, 41 Buckle Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Gisborne: Roll of Honour
  Public - Chris - Other relative - 20 April 2018 - Roll of Honour on East internal wall of church

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22024851
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage. The National War Memorial, The Carillon, Hall of Memories, The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial Park, Wellington.
  http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/282533/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/282533
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 797
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 30 - The Periscope : unofficial mouthpiece of the 1st Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) and Divisional Ammunition Column -- At sea : Officers & men of the Reinforcement : 1915