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Name Wilfred Wood No.
VC Issue No. 1136 Awards VC
Regiment Northumberland Fusiliers, 10th Battalion, B Company
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth 25 Adcroft Street, Stockport, Cheshire, England
Place Of Death Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, Cheshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Stockport Cemetery & Crematorium, South Buxton Road, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Cremated Stockport Cemetery & Crematorium, South Buxton Road, Stockport, Lancashire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 8 January 1982
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. 'First' Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 27 November 1918
VC Presented 19 December 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Entry in Book of Remembrance, Stockport Crematorium, Cheshire
P Named on Masonic VC Memorial, Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, London
P Memorial Plaque, Stockport Station, Cheshire
P Patriot Class locomotive named after him by LNWR, nameplate at the Northumberland Fusiliers Museum, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
P The Wilfred Wood Pub, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, Hazel Grove, Cheshire
By The Way…
Joining the LNWR in 1914, he spent all his working life on the railway, retiring in 1960, only the war interrupting his service
VC Held By
Held by Family
BORN 2 February 1897
DIED 3 January 1982 AGE 84
VC Won 28 October 1918 AGE 21
Place VC Won Near Casa Vana, Italy
War/Campaign First World War 1918
