WOOD Evelyn Victor A/Capt

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Surname: WOOD;

Forename(s): Evelyn Victor;

Initials: EV;

Rank: A/Capt;

Previous Regiment: SOMLI;

Date of transfer to MGC: 01-Feb-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 43 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 43 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 36 Bn;

Awarded: MC, bar to MC, MID, MID;

Gallantry Notes: bar to MC: for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in forming a defensive flank and holding it for four and a half hours under heavy machine gun barrage and against repeated attacks. Later in the day he ejected a party of the enemy who had broken through a part of the line by a brilliant counter attack and in the evening he succeeded in putting an enemy machine gun out of action.;

Other Data: wounded with 43 Coy 18/8/1916
arrives in 36 Bn 3/9/1918;

Other Notes: MC: LG 4/6/1917
bar to MC: LG 24/9/1918
MID: 4/1/1917 (dated 13/11/1916)
MID: LG 25/5/1918 A/Capt, MC;

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