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Pte. Rupert Wood
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Etruria, Stoke on Trent, Staffs
Rupert Wood was my husband's Grandfather. Prior to the Great War, Rupert worked delivering fruit and veg by horse and cart for Boyce Adams in Hanley.
He served in the 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in France and repatriated at some point to Douglas House in Bournemouth. I believe he had been gassed.
There is rumour that he engaged in a romance with a nurse at the hospital.
He returned home to his family, my mother-in-law was born in 1919, following his return. Mother says her father always had a cough and received a war pension. He worked as a gas lamp lighter and later at the gas works.