J.+H.+WOOD

Wood, James Harold, Private, 38631, 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers Born: Ambergate, Derby Enlisted: Derby Resided: Ambergate Killed in action 17th August 1917 Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 54 to 60 and 163A James is also commemorated on the Midland Railway Memorial; he worked as a Porter in the Traffic-Coaching Section Department at Ambergate Station 1911 Census Born Heage, Derbyshire, 1898 A school boy Son of James, a railway signalman, and Eliza Wood, of Station Cottages, Ambergate, Derbyshire Article in Derbyshire Courier, 1st September 1917: **AMBERGATE SOLDIER KILLED** Mr. and Mrs. James Wood, of Station Houses, Ambergate, have received news of the death of their eldest son, Private Harold Wood, killed in action. The news has reached his parents through a companion of his. Mr James Wood has been a long resident in the parish; he is a signalman and local secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union. His son was a porter on the Ambergate station and joined up a few months ago. He spent most of the time in France. He was a good lad and highly respected.

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