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Stanley Harold Wood
Stanley Harold Wood
709821
Private
78th Battalion
February 3, 1893
Yarmouth, NS
November 22, 1915
Sussex, New Brunswick
22
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium
Blue
Brown
Single (at enlistment)
Farmer
Baptist
Lloyd Wood (Brother) Lakeville, NB
Nora Wood (Wife) Centreville, Carleton Co., NB
June 6, 1919 (St. John, New Brunswick)
December 15, 1984
Stanley Wood was the son of John Rogers Wood (1848-1913) and Adavilla (Hatfield) Wood (1856-
1903).
Stanley Harold Wood enlisted with the 104th Battalion in Sussex, New Brunswick, serving in “D”
Company. He married Nora Hillary Sears (1901–1966) on April 29, 1916 in Woodstock, Carleton Co., NB.
He went overseas, on the SS Olympic, disembarking in Liverpool on July 1, 1916 and served with
the 78th Battalion in England and France.
Stanley and Nora were the adopting parents of George Arthur Wood (1925-1945) George Wood
served with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in air operations on February 7, 1945 while
serving as an Air Gunner with 12th RAF Squadron.
