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WOOD, George Huntly
(Service number 3/2053)

St Andrews War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.19 #01)

Name plaque (M-W)), St Andrews War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.19 #03)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (right panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #02)

Aliases
First Rank	Captain	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Medical practitioner
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs A. Wood (wife), Saint Andrews, near Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	11th Reinforcements New Zealand Medical Corps
Date	1 April 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Medical Corps, Mounted Field Ambulance

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards	Mentioned in Despatches (MiD)

Award Circumstances and Date

London Gazette, 1 December 1916, p11808: Mentioned in despatches from General Sir Alexander Murray, K.C.B; Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	11 August 1916	Age
Place of Death	Egypt
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Memorial Reference	F 129
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial; St Andrews War memorial (as Dr Huntly Wood)

Biographical Notes

Prior to World War One, Wood was the doctor in the village of St Andrews

Sources

Cenotaph (26 August 2013); SCRoll web submission from B Sommerfeld, 26 February 2015 & 24 February 2019

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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