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 Frederick Hood
Forename(s):
James Frederick
Surname:
Hood
Initial(s):
J F
Service Number:
290196
Rank:
Sergeant
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 1/7th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
15/09/1916
Aged:
20
Buried:
Combles Communal Cemetery Extension
Service History:
Enlisted at Rothbury, Northumberland.
An earlier service number is mentioned in the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (available via Ancestry.co.uk) - 1415.
The Registers also record Hood's date & place of death as 'On or since... Death presumed'.
Hood had been a Territorial soldier at the outbreak of war & had risen rapidly to hold the rank of Sergeant, although only 20 years of age. He died on a day on the Somme battlefield when the first use of tanks was made, in an attempt to break out of trench warwar. It was a day on which 1/7th Battalion took heavy casualties, suffering 43 officers & men killed, 74 missing & 226 wounded.
(Source: 'The Valley Remembers'; Edited by Sandy Hunter; Upper Coquetdale WW1 Project; 2014; pp. 55-56)
Background:
Son of Isabella Hood, of 4, Model Buildings, Rothbury, & the late James Hood.
Local Memorial:
Rothbury War Memorial