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Lawrence Wood served in the Royal Flying Corps (renamed RAF on 1 Apr 1918). His service record notes that he joined 2nd Brigade on 27 Sep 1915 and indicates he had previously been in an unknown army unit. On joining as an Air Mechanic he was later promoted to AM and to Corporal on 1 Apr 1917. He served in the wireless section as a wireless operator. He was in France for the duration of the war.
Lawrence joined the reserve on 14 Mar 1919 and was discharged in 1922 on the grounds of unfitness for further service. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and was mentioned in dispatches for bravery according to the local paper but this is not recorded on his RAF muster records.
Lawrence was born in Beverley on 8 Jan 1895 the son of Wallis Wood a Sergeant in the Beverley Borough Police, who married Alice Jane Holland in 1887. They initially lived on Hull Bridge Road, Beverley and later on Norwood.
Lawrence attended Lairgate Infant School, he left in 1908. In 1911 he was working as a grocery shop assistant. After his service Lawrence lived in Goole, but married Gladys May Wilson in Beverley in 1922. They had one child, Audrey, born 1927 in Middlesbrough. The family moved to Wolverhampton but later returned to Teeside where Lawrence died in 1959. Gladys died in 1958 and Audrey in 1989.
Lawrence is remembered on the Norwood Street Shrine, Beverley in the company of his two brothers who also served.
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