210705 Pte Charles Wood British Army Somerset Light Infantry from:Wellington, Somerset My paternal grandfather, Charles Henry Wood, served in the Somerset Light Infantry, the Devonshire Regiment, Suffolk & Cambridge Regiment and also the Lincolnshire Regiment during WW1. He served in France, we think at the Somme and was in Ypres at some time during that war. He joined the Devon Regiment in 1914 but was invalided out in 1915, not to be "put off" he rejoined and served in other regiments until they too discharged him on medical grounds. He also served in India, but as yet I have found no information on that, however I remember as a child being told stories of his time there. He never spoke about his time in France.
I am very proud to have known him. He died in 1973.
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