Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (A. E. B. Wood. Civ: Surgn:) third initial officially corrected, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps, edge bruising, very fine and scarce to a member of the Tsingtau Expeditionary Force £280-320

Albert Edward Bathurst Wood was born at Plymouth on 3 February 1876 and was educated at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He served in South Africa as a Civilian Surgeon from 1901-02 (additionally entitled to the two date clasps) and was commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 31 January 1903. He was promoted Captain on 31 July 1906, and served in India from 1904-09, in Hong Kong from 1911-12, in North China from 1912-14, and during the Great War with the Tsingtau Expeditionary Force from 23 September 1914, going out on the S.S. Shaoshing with the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers as part of the British force sent to assist the Japanese in capturing Germany’s naval base at Tsingtao. Promoted Major on 31 January 1915, he subsequently served on the Western Front from July 1915 as Commanding Officer of 46 Field Ambulance, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He retired on 8 January 1924, and was granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, but was re-employed in the rank of Major from March 1928 to October 1932, and again from April 1940 until December 1948 (additionally entitled to Defence and War Medals). He died at Bovey Tracey, Devon, on 4 December 1961.