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Pair: Second Lieutenant E. H. T. Woods, 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, killed in action, in the attack on High Wood, battle of the Somme, 15 July 1916
British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.)

Pair: Second Lieutenant H. W. Woods, 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, killed in action, battle of the Scarp, 23 April 1917
British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) extremely fine (4) £250-300

Edward Hunter Thurtell Woods was born in Ipswich on 22 January 1895, the eldest son of Coal Factor and Merchant, William Hunter Woods, of Ellingham, Hatfield Road, Ipswich and his wife, Rosa Maria Woods, nee Thurtell. Woods was educated at Ipswich Grammar School where he was a member of the O.T.C. Employed as an Accountant, he joined the Suffolk Yeomanry as a Despatch Rider on 1 December 1914, before obtaining a commission with the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment on 4 August 1915. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France from May 1916, and was killed in action at Bazentin-le-Petit, during the assault on High Wood, in the battle of the Somme. He was buried in the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.

Harold Wallace Woods, brother of the above and serving in the same regiment and battalion, was killed in action during the battle of the Scar, 23 April 1917. The regimental history records, ‘... Part of ‘D’ Coy., having been cut off, withdrew across country in rear of the support trench, where 2 Lt. H. W. Woods was killed.’ Aged 20 years at the time of his death, 2nd Lieutenant H. W. Woods was buried in the Cojeul British Cemetery, St. Martin-sur-Cojeul.

With copied research, including copied photograph of 2nd Lieutenant E. H. T. Woods.