4454514 Lance-Corporal Ronald WOOD, MiD, 1SAS: POW

Army Number: 4454514
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Name: Ronald WOOD, MiD
Unit: Durham Light Infantry ; Special Raiding Squadron, 1 Special Air Service


London Gazette : 29 August 1946
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37704/supplement/4343/data.pdf
Royal Army Medical Corps.
4454514 Pte. R. WOOD.

• Army Number Block Allocations
• Durham Light Infantry 4435001 - 4523000

 

Recommendation for Award for Wood, Ronald Rank: Lance Corporal Service No: ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 373/102/770
Name Wood, Ronald
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 4454514
Regiment: SRS, 1 Special Air Service Regiment, 8 Army
Theatre of Combat or Operation: The London Omnibus List for Gallant and Distinguished Services in the Field
Award: Mention-in-Despatches
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 05 December 1946

 

London Gazette : 29 August 1946
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37704/supplement/4342/data.pdf

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37704/supplement/4343/data.pdf

 

Name: R Wood . Service number: 4454514 . Date of birth: 17 February 1919 . | The National Archives
Reference: WO 422/110910
Name: R Wood.
Service number: 4454514.
Date of birth: 17 February 1919.

 

See also:

• 173497 William Harkins McBETH, MiD, 1 SAS: POW, E&E - escape companion
• 3312959 Private Robert Hamilton MacDONALD, Highland Light Infantry & 1 Special Air Service: POW - escape companion
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4454514 Cpl R Wood enlisted Durham Light Infantry TA. Joined 9th DLI 1939 joined duplicate battalion 12th DLI on 1st September 1939. 12th DLI transferred to the Black Watch on 1st February 1940, . Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Escaped via Dunkirk. Joined The 5th Battalion the Black Watch. Served Italy.. Reported missing believed PoW. Reported Prisoner of War 4/10/1943. Repatriated to the UK 1945
Transferred to the 7th Royal Ulster Rifles before joining Royal Army Medical Corps 12 July 1945, Home address given as Carriteth Cottages, Bellingham. Northumberland

Information given by DLI 1920-46


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