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.