2583413 Corporal Stanley Richard WOOD, Royal Signals: 16/06/1944

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    Corporal Stanley Richard Wood | War Casualty Details | CWGC
    Corporal STANLEY RICHARD WOOD
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    2583413, 50th Div. Sigs., Royal Corps of Signals
    who died age 23 on 16 June 1944
    Son of Bertram Cyrus Wood and Frances Wood, of Darlington, Co. Durham.</SPAN>
    Just off the main road outside of Chouain is the small sheltered Jerusalem cemetery. Among the neat headstones in a row at the rear is one of Dad’s friends;
    “We were at school together, same class. Stan was very studious I remember, not the sporty type. Stan was an operator attached to 151 Brigade on D-Day. The circumstances of his death we heard were that he was with an officer and driver and got cut off. We heard the officer managed to make his way back but Stan and the driver were killed”

    The exact circumstances may not be as Dad was told as the next grave to Stan is that of a Lieutenant of 6DLI, the only other 16 June casualty buried there.
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Cheers Mel,

    I wouldn't always rely on casualties in other plots as a clue. Sometimes they are just random burials .

    Jim may know about the DLI Chap.
     
  3. Thanks Andy.
     
  4. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

    Hi,
    The Lieutenant would have been 299453 Lieut Ivor William Spain he is in Row C.5 (Wood is C.6?) he is not listed as amongst the Battalion casualties for the actions around Marcel/Le Pont de La Guillette or the Tilly-Lingevres Road which is where I believe the 6th DLI were at this time,four persons were wounded Major Maurice Kirby,Captain Bousfield ,Sgt Major Charlton and 197180 Lieutenant Cranko(Worcestershire Regiment att 6DLI) who later died of his wounds on the 19th June 1944and is buried at RYES War Cemetery.14208452 Pte Alfred Campin of the 6th DLI was the only other casualty of this day he died of wounds received on the 14th June at Verrieres he`s at Bayeux.Although the War Diary does mention six casualties for the day.
    Lieutenant Ivor William Spain joined the 6th DLI in late January /early February 1944 in time for exercises FOX 1 and FOX 2 held at the Stanford Battle Area.During one of these Lieutenant Spain was recorded as `wounded` in a 2" Mortar explosion so he may not have been fully fit when he went to France.
    Not a lot but hope its of interest
    Jim
     
  5. Verrieres,

    It is of interest, thank-you. It seemed a coincidence that an officer with 151 was next to Stan Wood, although there was a clearing station in the area. Dad seems to think the officer was a Brigadier, and he did escape back.

    Mel
     
  6. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

    Verrieres,

    It is of interest, thank-you. It seemed a coincidence that an officer with 151 was next to Stan Wood, although there was a clearing station in the area. Dad seems to think the officer was a Brigadier, and he did escape back.

    Mel

    No problem...not that much of a coincidence really though ,Jerusalem is a 50th Div cemetery and the vast majority at peace there are Durham Light Infantrymen (151 Bde)
    Best Wishes
    Jim
     
  7. Update from Signals War Diary:
    South of Biary

    16 June 1944 Cpl Wood Recce operator to Comd 151 Bde killed by mortor bomb at 2 Essex Bn HQ.

    Memory mixing events for Dad as entry from 7 June states;

    Brig Senior, Comd 151 Bde, returns wounded after escaping enemy in Bazenville Wood and reports L/Cpl Horton P J (M.M.), his recce operator previously reported missing, now reported killed in ambush 15.30 hrs 6 June.
     
  8. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Buceels at 1315hrs on 16th June 1944

    Bn HQ area shelled for 2 mins. 6 HE dropped. Results of this was killed, Lt. Frading Sig Offr Essex Regt and 2 att sigs from 151 Bde. Brig 151 Bde was wounded.
     
  9. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

     
  10. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Chouain was a British battlefield cemetery in a farmer's field on the right hand side of the D6 from Tilly to Bayeaux.The majority of the casualties are DLI as has been said.The 40 dead include three or four padres.

    The British referred to the cemetery as "Jerusalem" and post war when it was suggested that the casualties would be concentrated into a larger military cemetery,the local farmer apparently expressed a wish that the dead should remain in their battlefield graves.So "Jerusalem" became a permanent CWGC cemetery.

    For anyone passing through,home distilled Calvados is available at the farm.Heard stories of farms during the D Day era leaving glasses of Calvados out for Allied troops.
     

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