World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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James Archibald Wood
Forename(s):
James Archibald
Surname:
Wood
Initial(s):
J A
Service Number:
31610
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment), 7th (Service) Battalion
Died:
26/08/1918
Aged:
34
Buried:
Tehran Memorial, Iran
Service History:
Enlisted at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Killed in action in South Russia, in what Ancestry.co.uk describes as the Russian theatre of operations.
Background:
Born 1885, the son of Penement & the late Martha Wood (née Stephenson).
In 1911, Wood was a Stonebreaker at the local whinstone quarry. According to Ancestry.co.uk, he was resident at Lesbury which normally embraces Boulmer.
Husband of Mary Wood (née Campbell), of Scots Gap, Boulmer, Northumberland. The couple married in 1915.
Local Memorial:
Boulmer, Memorial Hall Plaque
Longhoughton War Memorial
Longhoughton, St. Peter & St Paul Church