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George Arthur Wood
J/94668
Pilot Officer
12 RAF Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
December 1, 1925
Fredericton, NB
September 4, 1943
Montreal Quebec
Hartford, Connecticut, US
17
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium
Blue
Brown
Single
Student
Church of England
Nora Wood (Mother) Hartford, Connecticut, US
February 7, 1945
19
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands
XVII. A. 10.
Commemorated on Page 577 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on December 2
George Arthur Wood was the adopted son of Stanley Harold Wood, and of Nora (Sears) Wood. His father,
Stanley, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and served during World War I. The family lived in
Fredericton, New Brunswick where George was born; however, when he was four months old the family
moved to the United States and lived in Hartford, Connecticut.
At age seventeen, George returned to Montreal, Quebec, and enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air
Force. He trained in Canada and received his Air Gunner Badge on March 24, 1944. He embarked
Halifax on May 25, 1944 and disembarked in the United Kingdom on June 2, 1944. He served with 83
OTU (Operational Training Unit) from June 20, 1944 to September 10, 1944 and was then taken on
strength with 12 RAF Squadron on October 30, 1944.
On the night of February 7/8 Pilot Officer Wood was the Upper Air Gunner on Lancaster aircraft NF 925
that departed RAF Station Wickenby for bombing operations over Kleve, Germany. The aircraft failed to
return to base. It was later determined the aircraft, hit by flax, crashed in the vicinity of Oss in the
southern Netherlands. All seven members of the crew including George Arthur Wood were killed. The
bodies were initially buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Nistelrode, approximately five miles
south of Oss and post-war, re-buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
George Arthur Wood
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