Charles Hedley WOOD

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Service Number:	491
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	6th Australian Field Artillery Battery
Born:	Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 2 May 1895
Home Town:	Hawthorn, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 27 August 1982, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 491, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Lance Corporal, 491, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
8 May 1915:	Wounded Australian Defence Forces (ADF)_Australian Regular Army, Lance Corporal, 491, 6th Australian Field Artillery Battery, ANZAC / Gallipoli, struck by bullet to the chest which hit a french translation book and a diary in his breast pocket before wounding his chest wall. Also hit by bullet to the left forearm

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