Reginald John Owen Wood
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1935 to 1938. At the outbreak of the war Reginald volunteered as a driver for the British Red Cross and served at home and in France were he helped in th evacuation from Dunkirk. He was also an air raid warden.
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He was the only son of Capt Charles Eustace Owen and Doris Wood of 22 Park Avenue, Mansfield. Charles had served in the Royal Engineers.
Old Elizabethans Service Roll: Officer Cadet Wood had just completed the Officer's Training course at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy and was awaiting gazette as an officer in the 4/7th Dragoon Guards . Whilst out on a training exercise with his troop he was thrown from his tank and was caught up in the tracks. Owing to severity of his injuries he died.
The interment took place on January 29th , the service being conducted by the military chaplins in the College chapel after which the coffin was conveyed on a gun carriage to the cemetery were it was interred with full military honours.
Newly commissioned officers of his own troop acted as pall bearers and the staff and cadets of the college were in attendance.
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