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War
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The Lych Gate Outside All Saints' Church, Wellington (Wrekin)
Photo : Ynyr Owen of the
War Memorials On Line website
The War Memorial for Wellington is located in the Lychgate at the entrasnce to All Saints' Churchyard.
185 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, and 51 in the Second World War. A transcription of the First World War commemorations is on the webiste for the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials. A photograph by Ynyr Owen on the War Memorials On Line website shows the 2nd World War commemorations.
1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Theodore Wood.
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Died at home 14 July 1916.
Buried BEBINGTON (ST. ANDREW'S) CHURCHYARD, CHESHIRE
(Incorrectly shown on the Wellington Memorial as serving with the West Yorkshire
Regiment.)
A comprehensive biograhy of Thomas Theodore Wood is provided on the Shropshire
Archives website, Wellington
Remembers.
The biographical information provided on the above website is highly comprehensive,
and can be thoroughly recommended.
From this biograohy it is clear as to why he was buried in Bebington, Cheshire.
The following biographical information is also provided in Robert Coulson's
Biographies
of Officers Killed in the First World War;-
"Thomas Wood initially served in the ranks of the Shropshire Light Infantry
before officer training and joining with the Yorkshire Regiment.
He was to lose his life through wounds incurred during the Battle of the Somme
in the summer of 1916.
Serving with the 9th Battalion, 2nd Lt Wood and his men moved into the line
on July 4th close to the village of La Boiselle.
Over the next few days they fought for the capture of Horseshoe Trench and
it was from this position that they attacked the German held village of Contalmaison
on July 10th.
At 4-50pm on July 10th 2nd Lt Wood left the trench with his men to begin the
advance towards Contalmaison.
“No finer sight has been seen than the advance of these brave Yorkshiremen
in quick time across the open amid bursting shells and all the machine gun
and rifle fire that the enemy could bring to bear against them”.
2nd Lt Wood was badly wounded in this attack and passed through the casualty
clearing chain and back to hospital in England.
Thomas Theodore Wood died of his wounds four days later on July 14th 1916.
His grave today lies in Bebington St Andrew churchyard on the Wirral."
The
First World War Commemorations Inside the Lychgate to All Saints' Church,
Wellington (Wrekin)
Select the above for a detailed view, which opens in a new window, of the
section on which Lieut Wood is commemorated
Photo : Ynyr Owen of the
War Memorials On Line website
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