Arthur Holroyd O'Hara WOOD

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WOOD, Arthur Holroyd O'Hara

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	Royal Air Force - unspecified units
Born:	East St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia , 10 January 1890
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Melbourne Grammar School, Trinity College Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Medical Practitioner
Died:	Accidental Air Crash, France, 6 October 1918, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme II. G. 19.
Memorials:	MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club, St. Kilda East All Saints Anglican Church Mausoleum Memorial

World War 1 Service

4 Oct 1918:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Major, Officer, Royal Air Force - unspecified units

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Catherine Compton O'HARA WOOD, of 'Crest Hill" Lansdowne Road, East St. Kilda, Vic. and the late John James O'HARA WOOD

Sincere regret will be expressed by sportsmen at the news of the death in France of Major Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood, (Royal Flying Corps), elder son of Mr. O'Hara Wood, the well-known Melbourne barrister. Major O'Hara Wood was an old Melburnian, with a distinguished school and University career. He was equal head of the Melbourne Grammar School with Captain H. C. Colville, with whom he was on the Alfred Hospital staff when war broke out. He graduated M.B. Ch.B. at the Melbourne University, with honors in surgery and obstetrics, in 1914. He was a well-known athlete, being in the Grammar School cricket, football and lawn tennis teams. He was the public schools' tennis champion in 1908, and represented Victoria at Lawn tennis against New South Wales in 1913. He also had the uncommon distinction of being a triple blue of the Melboune University, gaining his colors in cricket, tennis and rifle-shooting.

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