Cecil Talbot WOODS

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WOODS, Cecil Talbot

Service Numbers:	151, Officer
Enlisted:	29 September 1914
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	8th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia, 21 February 1875
Home Town:	Gilgandra, Gilgandra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Accountant
Died:	Killed In Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 151, 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles

29 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 8th Light Horse Regiment
Date unknown:	Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment

Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Flora Ann and the late William Frederic WOODS

Husband of Laura M TAYLOR fmly WOODS

CAPTAIN C. T. WOODS.
Captain Cecil Talbot Woods (killed in action on August 2) was connected with the military forces of Victoria for some time as lieutenant. On enlisting he was attached to the 8th Light Horse Brigade and proceeded to Egypt with his regiment. While in Heliopolis he was promoted to his captaincy. Captain Woods was wounded at the Boer War, and was offered a commission in one of the English regiments, tho Worcesters, where he continued to serve until the cessation of hostilities in South Africa. He was one of eight sons, five of whom have enlisted. His oldest brother, Mr. W. H. Woods, was killed in action on May 21.

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