Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The British War Medal awarded to 2nd Lieutenant H. C. Wood, Royal Air Force, a Canadian observer who was wounded in September 1918 and awarded the D.F.C. in June 1919

British War Medal 1914-20 (2/Lieut. H. C. Wood. R.A.F.) extremely fine £140-£180

D.F.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 15 July 1919.

Henry Cawling Wood was a Canadian born observer with No. 48 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in the Poperinghe, Comines theatre of the Western Front. He was observer in a Bristol F2b which was shot up by anti-aircraft fire over Poperinghe on the evening of 6 September 1918, crash landing and injuring the pilot 2 Lt. Rycroft. Lieutenants Rycroft and Wood were both wounded on 30 September 1918, when their F2b was hit by machine gun fire from the ground.