Monteith Cowper (Monty) WOOD

WOOD, Monteith Cowper

Service Number: NX70203
Enlisted: 30 May 1940, Paddington, New South Wales
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Bowral, New South Wales, Australia, 13 May 1919
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney Church of England Grammar School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Sugar Refinery employee
Died: Killed in Action, Egypt, 17 August 1941, aged 22 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

30 May 1940: Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, NX70203, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk
30 May 1940: Enlisted AIF WW1, Paddington, New South Wales
30 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, NX70203, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Monteith Cowper WOOD (Monty) was born on 13th May, 1919 in Bowral, NSW

His parents were Edmund Henry WOOD and Anne Elphinstone Liddon SIMPSON

He enlisted on 30th May, 1940 with the Australian Army - he was a Lieutenant in the 2/13 Australian Infantry Battalion at the time of his death

He served with the 2/13th Infantry Battalion of the 20th Brigade, 9th Australian Division in the Middle East and  on the night of 16/17th August he went missing while on patrol from post R11 at Tobruk, he was wounded at Tobruk, later presumed Killed in Action on 17th August, 1941  - aged 22 years

He is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial - Column 91 and also the Australian War Memorial

 

 

 

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