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An Active Service: The Story of a Soldier's Life in the Grenadier Guards, SAS and SBS 1935-1958
By Richard Dorney
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 4528" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Wood </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Virgil Howard</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Ranger Bn (Company D) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20704921 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>18th May 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ardennes American Cemetery, Neupre, Belgium Plot C Row 4 Grave 43 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Des Moines County, Iowa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.01.1922 Cobden, Minnesota, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Joseph Jennings Wood (1901-1966)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Bessie Mathilda (nee Salisbury) Wood (1903-1981)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4 years high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1939 graduated Urbandale High School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>civil occupation semiskilled driver</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>single without dependents upon enlistment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Iowa National Guard</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>10.02.1941 entered service Des Moines, Iowa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Next of kin - Father. Mr. Joe J. Wood, 4100-68th Street, Des Moines, Iowa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died Germany (non battle) (due plane crash whilst being evacuated from German POW Camp)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/v-wood.39316/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39316-06ce64a23c335dab23b679627f2bc61f.jpg?1697396362" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/v-wood-grave.39315/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39315-b8818d5459f28b48d5376b00c432843b.jpg?1697396357" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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