Wood | O G | | Colonel | Demise: Died of disease - other, disease specified 04 Jan 1902
Place: Kroonstad
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Royal Army Medical Corps |
Wood | Oswald Gillespie | | Colonel | He died of internal inflammation at Kroonstad, January 3rd, 1902. He was born in November 1851, and educated at Edinburgh Academy. He entered the Army Medical Staff in September 1873, being promoted surgeon Major March 1886, Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel March 1894, Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel April 1897, and Colonel (South Africa) October 1899. He served in the Egyptian War of 1882, and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, receiving the medal with clasp and the Khedive's star. In the operations on the Nile of 1889, he was senior medical officer to the British troops. At the beginning of the South African War he was in charge of a general hospital, and afterwards was Principal Medical Officer at Kroonstad, being mentioned in despatches, LG, April 16th, 1901, and was awarded the CB November 29th, 1900.
Source: Donner | Royal Army Medical Corps |
Wood | P | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Scots Guards |
Wood | P | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment |
Wood | P | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Durham Light Infantry |
Wood | P | 2134 | Private | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879. Deserted | (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment |
Wood | P | | 1st Class Private | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1877-8 | Cape Field Artillery |
Wood | P | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Midland Mounted Rifles |
Wood | P | | Sergeant | Natal 1906 (1)
Source: Recipients of the Natal 1906 Medal | Natal Rangers |
Wood | P A E | 294 | Corporal | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1877-8-9 | Cape Mounted Rifles |
Wood | P E M | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 77th Battery, RFA |
Wood | P G | | Trooper | Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Marshall's Horse |
Wood | P G M | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 77th Battery, RFA |
Wood | P J | | Corporal | CGHGSM (1) Bechuanaland
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | DEOVR |
Wood | P S | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Cape Town Highlanders |
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