Second Lieutenant Almeric Watkins WOOD (1910)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 5th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Born 11 October 1891 in Bengal, India
Died of wounds received in action 29 September 1915, aged 23
Buried at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Commemorated on a plaque in St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton, Surrey; and on the Beaumont College war memorial.

Almeric Wood was the son of Richard Somerville Wood and Frances Harriet, née Moodie, of Chelsea, London.

He was educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, where he was captain of the school and captain of the boats, and took first class honours in History at Merton in 1913. He rowed in the Merton VIII at Henley in 1912 and 1913.

He enlisted on 15 August 1914, and served in France and Flanders.

He was hit by shellfire whilst directing his platoon in an assault on Bellewaarde Farm in the Ypres sector, and his leg was shattered. He died of his wounds on 29 September 1915.