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- 1891 Census Benjamin Woods b Abt 1890 Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire residence Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire
Also in the household was his father Thomas age 42, mother Jane age 39, sister Florence age 8, and James Woods age 52 boarder - James appears to be Thomas' brother
Name: WOODS, BENJAMIN HERBERT Initials: B H Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Bedfordshire Regiment Unit Text: 6th Bn. Age: 28 Date of Death: 16/01/1918 Service No: 15049 Additional information: Son of Mrs. Jane Woods, of Gilston, nr. Harlow, Essex. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 4. Row A. Grave 4. Cemetery: LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
Cemetery: LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE Country: France Locality: unspecified Visiting Information: Wheelchair access to site possible - maybe by alternative entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our enquiries dept. on 01628 634221. Location Information: Morebecque is a small village in the Department of the Nord, 3 kilometres south-west of Hazebrouck. Leave the church in Morebecque and head north on the D916 towards Hazebrouck. After approximately 1 kilometre there is a Plant Nursery on the left hand side. Take the small road which goes through the nursery and the cemetery will be found on the right hand side in amongst farm land. Historical Information: Le Grand Hasard Military Cemetery, begun by the 31st Division at the end of June 1918, was also used by the 40th Division. On its closure at the end of August the cemetery comprised Plots I and II, but after the Armistice Plots III and IV were added when scattered graves were brought into the cemetery from a wide area around Hazebrouck. The earliest of these graves dates from May 1915, but the majority were from the fighting of April 1918. There are now 300 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery. Two further plots of 138 burials were added to the cemetery during the Second World War. Among these later burials, all dating from May and June 1940, are special memorials to a number of casualties known to be buried within the cemetery whose graves could not be precisely located. 58 of the graves are unidentified. The original cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. No. of Identified Casualties: 377
Newspaper clipping - date and name of paper not known - attached to email from glyn warwick to Lois Willis 25 May 2008
Gilston Soldier Accidentally Killed in France.
Drummer BENJAMIN H. WOODS
(Bedford Regiment),
Who was accidentally killed in France on January 16th, through the roof of a barn, where he was sleeping with others, being blown in by the rough wind storm. The deceased, who was 28 years of age, joined the Army in September 1914, and went to France in the following July. He was well known and respected in the Gilston district and had been a member of the Gilston Church Choir both as man and boy. For ten years he was employed by Mr A. S. Bowlby, as gardener. The sad news of his death was conveyed to his mother, who is a widow, and the deceased her only son, by a letter from a Chaplain, who stated that a rafter fell on his neck, death being instantaneous while he slept. The Chaplain added that deceased was buried in a small village churchyard with full military honours.
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