Wood Stanley WIllis

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Stanley WIllis Wood is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

ISOB Captain Stanley Willis Wood - Former 7th US Infantry

Name:

Stanley WIllis Wood

Rank:

Captain

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Unit:

16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regt.)

Date of Death:

1916-06-13

State:

Missouri

Cemetery:

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, We

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Mentioned in dispatches

Comments:

An American, born in Kansas City, who lost his life fighting with the 16th Bn. Canadian Infantry in WWI. He was the son of Robert and Lillie Wood.

From Find a Grave:6th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Killed in action. Age 29.
Son of Robert Whitney Wood and Lillie Collins Wood, of Kansas City, U.S.A.
He attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts for one year starting in 1908.

From the NY Times:
CAPT. STANLEY WOOD KILLED.

Former United States Officer Was Serving with the Canadian Forces.

Captain Stanley Willis Wood of the Sixteenth Battalion Canadian Scottish, formerly a second lieutenant with the Seventh Infantry of the United States Army, was killed Tuesday at Ypres. He was a member of the expeditionary force that occupied Vera Cruz, and on his return in November, 1914, resigned his commission and enlisted in the Canadian expeditionary forces.

Captain Wood had been twice wounded and was twice recommended for decoration, and was once mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed to the United States Army from civil life in February, 1911, and was a brother of Captain Robert E. Wood of the cavalry.