Commemorated on a family memorial in Burslem Cemetery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Sergeant 9002 John Wood, Leicestershire Regiment, who fell in action at the Persian Gulf, 8 March 1916, 23 son of Henry and Mary Ann and husband of Annie Maria Commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq
Info from his (Burnt Record)
He was declared medically fit for service 9th June 1910. He gave his aged as 18yrs and 11 months (C1891) and occupation,as a miner. and he lived with his parents at 146, Sneyd Street, Burslem
On the 5th January 1915 he received a gun shot wound to left arm and chest, not life threatening, and sent to England next day. whilst at in England he got married at Christ Church, Cobridge, Staffs on the 1st August 1915 to Annie Maria Tudor, spinster
Promotions
On the 24th April 1911 he was promoted to Lance Corporal, unpaid
18th August 1911 Appointed, Paid, Vice Watson, Lance Corporal
15th September 1912, Paid, Vice Pepper, Corporal
5th August 1914, Unpaid Lance Sergeant
1st October 1914, Acting Vice Gamble, Sergeant
26th October 1914, Vice Carter, Sergeant
He embarked Devonport 21st January 1916, and disembarked at Basra 21st February 1916
1st March 1916 he rejoined the 2nd Battalion in the field
8th March 1916, killed in action, Persian Gulf
