Attended St Bees School until April 1914, when he left to join his father in business in Chester. In July 1915 he joined one of the service battalions of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers., and was sent out to France in March 1916 with the 14th Battalion. He was killed on July 11, in Mametz Wood, which the Welsh Division won and held at such terrible cost.

His brothers Henry and Fred were also killed in action during WW1.

Elizabeth Wood