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Sergeant Herbert Wood was killed in action on 28 Mar 1918, aged 40, his body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial on the Somme, France.
Herbert served in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, and enlisted in Scarborough immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914. He arrived in France on 18 Apr 1915 and went straight into action at St Julien in the 2nd Battle of Ypres. The 5th spent time in Belgium in 1915-16 and in late 1917, on the Somme and at Arras in 1916-17. On 28 Mar 1918 the 5th were in retreat following a massive German offensive. Herbert was killed in the vicinity of the Rosieres-Vrely road, south of the Somme battlefield of 1916. The circumstances of his death are not known. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and the 1914-15 Star.
Herbert was born in Beverley the 28 Jan 1878 and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 3 Mar 1878, the son of John Wood and Harriet (nee Hoggard). John was a joiner and the family home was in Vicar Lane. Herbert became a cabinet-maker and on 30 Sep 1899 married Sarah Ann Bulmer at Riccall. They had three children, Margery born 1902, Dorothy born 1904 and Mary born 1910. They lived at 12 Regent Street and later at 57 Trinity Lane in beverley.
Herbert is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial and on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster.
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