Eric Mcglynn WOOD

WOOD, Eric Mcglynn

Service Number: SX1298
Enlisted: 6 November 1939, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Lance Sergeant
Last Unit: 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion
Born: North Adelaide, South Australia, 31 October 1908
Home Town: North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

6 Nov 1939: Involvement Lance Sergeant, SX1298, 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion
6 Nov 1939: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
6 Nov 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, SX1298, 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion
26 Nov 1945: Discharged
26 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, SX1298, 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Born 31 Ocotber 1908 in North Adelaide, South Australia
(SA Births 1907 - 1928, Book : 812 Page : 31 District : Ade.

Father  Percy Walsingham Wood  (b. 10/3/1873 North Adelaide, SA - d.6/9/1950)
Mother Amelia Jessie Wood (nee Connell), lived at 105A Childers Street, North Adelaide, SA

Father served in WWI:
4607  Private Percy Walsingham Wood - in 10th Infantry Battalion
          6/9/1915      enlisted in Adelaide, SA
          7/2/1916      embarked from Outer Harbour, SA, onboard HMAT A28 Miltiades
                              as a Private in 10th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement    
          13/2/1917     Returned to Australia onboard HT Benalla, ex Plymouth, England
          18/6/1917     discharged from service
           6/9/1950      passed away
           Buried in:     West Terrace Cemetery (general), Adelaide, SA
                              Section: Eyre North; Path #12N;  E/W: E;  Site #32

Siblings:        
Brother:
Frederick Walkden Wood (b. 16/6/1899 York, Western Australia)
Service #62187
Private in 11th Depot Unit of Supply
18/6/1918  enlisted in WWI in Adelaide SA
6/8/1918    embarked from Outer Harbour, SA, onboard SS Gaika
9/8/1919    returned to Australia
married:     Irene Maud Wood (nee Schrader) - d.18/10/1985 (85 years of age)
                 buried with Frederick
children:     Robert Frederick Wood; Alan Percival Wood and Betty Irene Kaye (Wood)
8/3/1927    passed away in Adelaide, SA - (27 years of age)
Buried in:   West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, SA
                 Section: Eyre North; Path #12N; E/W: E; Site #31

Brother: 
Ernest Walsingham Wood
service #762
7/9/1914       1st enlisted at Morphettville, SA
17/9/1914     embarked onboard HMAT A2 Geelong from Outer Harbour, SA
                    Lance Corporal in 12th Infantry Battalion
8/5/1915        gun shot wound to back and left knee - Dardanelles, Galllipoli, ANZAC
                     admitted to 2nd General Hospital
15/8/1915      returned invalided to Australia onboard HMAT Thermistocles, ex Suez, Egypt
1916              married  Mary Louisa Wood (nee Williams)   (b.1896 SA - d. 1979 WA)
NEW Service #6029
6/11/1916      re-embarked from Outer Harbour, SA, onboard HMAT A19 Afric
                     as a Private in 27th Battalion
1/9/1918        gun shot wound right thigh - received in action, France
22/8/1919      returned to Australia onboard HT Anchises
5/10/1919      disembarked into Australia
6/12/1919      discharged from service

remarried:      now  Mrs Mary Louisa Rowles - living at 294 Railway Terrace, Maylands, WA
21/11/1921    children:  Violet Maud Wood (b. 1917 - 5 yrs)
                                   Norma Wood  (b.4/8/1920 North Adelaide, SA - 2 yrs)
                                   lived with mother in Western Australia 
                     and         Frederick Milton Rowles (b. 1923)

13/10/1921    accidentally killed


Sister:     Elva Victoria WOOD  (b.27/11/1910 North Adelaide, SA)
              (SA Births 1907 - 1928, Book : 854 Page : 374 District : Ade.)
Brother:   Percy Allan WOOD  (b. 22/2/1913 North Adelaide, SA)
              (SA Births 1907 - 1928, Book :904 Page : 197 District : Ade.)
Brother:  Alfred Connell WOOD (b.2/6/1915 North Adelaide, SA)
              (SA Births 1907 - 1928, Book : 960 Page : 169 District : Ade.)

 

Wife: Kathleen Valeria WOOD (nee RIGNEY)

 

6/11/1939       enlisted into WWII in Adelaide, SA

 

Lance Sergeant in 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Returned to Australia

 

 

 

 

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  16/7/2016.  Lest we forget.

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