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John was born and baptised in Walkington in 1890 but brought up in Beverley by parents Francis and Sarah Ann Hood, one of 9 children and one of 5 brothers who served during the war. John joined the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, known locally as the Beverley Terriers, his initial service number of 1961 indicates he enlisted around Sep 1914. His Medal Card shows he was entitled to the 1915 Star, Victory and British medals with his entry into France given as 18 Apr 1915. On 25 Mar 1916 the Beverley Guardian reports that on the previous Wednesday there were 29 men from 5th Yorkshire Regiment wounded and a further 5 affected by shell shock, including Private John Hood. John's photograph appears in an article in the Beverley Guardian in Mar 1919, together with his elder and 3 younger brothers, one of whom had died. It tells that John was wounded twice and this might account for the two other service numbers that appear on his Medal Card. At some point he was assigned to the Royal Engineers and then returned to the Yorkshire Regiment.
After the war John, known as Jack, returned to live with his parents who were now in Walkington. He married Ada Gilson in 1931. Electoral Registers from 1949 show Jack and Ada living in Cherry Tree Lane, Beverley until the time of his death in 1967. He was aged 77 when he died in Driffield hospital. Like his brothers William, Alfred and Ernest, he is buried in Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley.
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