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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 22 September 16 12:33 BST (UK) »
So Harry Wood 11803 Duke of Wellington's service records survive too and he was 1897, and 5'6 and his step father is a Fred Merry so it doesn't seem to fit either!

Any ideas where I am going wrong?

There are some other Woods on the Absent Voters' Register with the middle name Henry/Harry but hardly seem likely to be one of them?


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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 22 September 16 14:28 BST (UK) »
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Just found Jane's death certificate from 1940 ... She is described as the wife of Harry Wood, 2197386 Cpl. Royal.Engineers (Stevedore
Maybe you should get his service record as it may have his WW1 record attached.
What were the stories you heard about his WW1 exploits.
I'm wondering as he was a docker he may have been in the Special Reserve.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 22 September 16 16:11 BST (UK) »
Other stories include that he threw his great coat from a train as it was too heavy to carry ha.

Still odd that he doesn't seem to be in Middlesbrough.

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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 22 September 16 17:00 BST (UK) »
What I'm wondering is that he was in the UK at one of the docks.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 22 September 16 17:27 BST (UK) »
My granddad said he was a gunner in the Artillery but I've found nothing on that and my granddad's statement also contradicts the photograph, which we're very confident is Harry Wood, and that shows is cap badge to the RE?

That would make sense with him being in the RE in WW2.

Does this help?

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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 22 September 16 19:14 BST (UK) »
He could have been in the Inland Waterways & Docks in the UK.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 22 September 16 19:39 BST (UK) »
You need to bite the bullet and donate £30 to the MOD.

Ken


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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 22 September 16 19:52 BST (UK) »
That is on a very long list of things to do but I work abroad so seems a bit more difficult to order from the MOD.

Regardless, I'm still a bit concerned why he isn't on the Absent Voters List.

I'll keep this post updated.

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Re: Henry 'Harry' Wood
« Reply #26 on: Friday 23 September 16 07:59 BST (UK) »
I believe that the only 'problem' with orderng from the MOD is they need a cheque and a few people nowadays don't have cheque books.

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