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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Robert Phillips Wood
Forename(s):
Robert Phillips
Surname:
Wood
Initial(s):
R P
Service Number:
K/42304
Rank:
Stoker 1st Class
Regiment:
Royal Navy, HMS Louvain
Died:
20/01/1918
Aged:
25
Buried:
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire
Service History:
HMS Louvain began life as the Dresden, which had been built in 1897 at Earle's Co. Ltd. at Hull. She weighed 1,805 tons, was owned by the Great Western Railway, & worked as a ferry boat on the Harwich to Antwerp route. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 31 October 1914, & converted to an Armed Boarding Steamer & renamed Louvain.
HMS Louvain sailed from Portsmouth on 1 January 1918 for Lemnos Island in Greece, via Malta. She left Malta on 18 January & two days later was torpedoed & sunk by a German U-boat, UC22, in the Aegean Sea. 208 men drowned, only 14 survived.
(Source: 'Felton War Memorial: The Men behind the names'; Eleanor George [formerly Hall]; 2009; p. 18)
Background:
Born 1892, at Longframlington, Northumberland, the sixth of ten children of John Wood, by his wife, Eleanor Wood (née Phillips).
The family moved to Felton about 1893 when John secured a job as an Estate Worker on Felton Park Estate.
By the age of 18, Wood was working as a Carter, probably on Felton Park Estate.
(Source: 'Felton War Memorial: The Men behind the names'; Eleanor George [formerly Hall]; 2009; p. 18)
Local Memorial:
Felton War Memorial incorporating Acton, Eshott, Swarland & Thirston