Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private C. E. Wood, Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), killed in action at Bullecourt, 3 May 1917

British War and Victory Medals (7651 Pte. C. E. Wood. H.A.C.-Inf.-) good very fine (2) £60-80

Cecil Evelyn Wood was born on 7 December 1897, in Reading, Berkshire, and lived in Croydon, the son of the Reverend Percy George and Evelyn Maude Wood, of 25, Beatrice Avenue, Norbury, London. A Clerk at the Board of Trade, he joined the Honourable Artillery Company on 14 May 1916 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery Company from 10 December 1916. He was killed in action at Bullecourt on 3 May 1917, aged 19. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.