Frederick Albert Jon Wood is commemorated on the war memorial on Chailey Green but is not recorded on either the Commonwealth War Graves’ Commission’s (CWGC) Debt of Honour register or Soldiers Died in the Great War. This suggests that he died of wounds or a war service incurred sickness after
Chailey Parish Magazine first notes
in March 1915 that Frederick Wood is serving his King and Country. In October 1915 it notes, Wood, Pte F, AVC, Dardanelles
and in December 1917 that his rank is now that of corporal. This information is then repeated up to and
including the final published roll call in July 1919. There is no mention of him in the parish
magazine’s roll of honour.
Fortunately, Frederick ’s
medal index card at The National Archives in Kew
fills in further details. He is recorded as SE/4483 Corpl Fredk Albert J Wood
of the RAVC (the Army Veterinary Corps became the Royal Army Veterinary Corps
on 27th November
1918 ). He enlisted on 1st March 1915
and appears to have arrived in Gallipoli just thirteen days later on 14th
March. He was discharged as no longer
physically fit for war service on 7th June 1919 and was entitled to a silver war
badge as well as the 1914-15 Star and British War and Victory Medals.
Medal index card courtesy of Ancestry.
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