Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Ernest WOOD
Corporal 5083 Ernest WOOD
63rd Company, Machine Gun Corps,
formerly 19169 Yorkshire Light Infantry
Killed in Action, Sunday 19th November 1916, France, age 22
| Home address: | 36 Brook Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1894, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Elizabeth Ellen Wood and Fred Wood 13 Lumn Street, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | Apprentice Fitter |
| Enlisted: | Hyde, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | - Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, pier 5 or 12. - Hyde Cemetery, Hyde, Cheshire, named on a family gravestone. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
Brother of Mrs. M. Halliwell, of 36, Markham St., Newton, Hyde, Cheshire.
From the Hyde Reporter, 9th December 1916, page 5, column 2:
He was raised by his sister from the age of five.
From the Manchester Evening News, 8th December 1916, page 2, column 5:
He was a well known Hyde footballer, and joined in 1914.
Commonwealth War Grave says died aged 23, when he was actually aged 22.