Notes
The Roll lists his address as 42 Gladstone Street. It records his regimental number at death as 745, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private C M Wood, regimental number 205857, died on 4/4/1918 serving in 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave IV.B.31 at Premont British Cemetery in France, having been reinterred after the War.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Cecil was a native of Newark on Trent who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at Bohain, and that his father John M Wood was his legatee.
The Medal Rolls record that Cecil had initially served in the 1/1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry under regimental number 745, which later changed to 145120; he went to France on 6/11/1914; he then transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment on 23/9/1917 under regimental number 205857.
His Medal Index Card records that his father John Malcolm Wood applied for his Cecil's medals; the correspondence address was recorded as 39 Broad Street, Portsmouth.
The birth of Cecil Malcolm Wood was registered in Newark District in 1895. On the 1901 census he was staying with his aunt Mary Ann and her husband William Sutton at 95 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was staying with his grandmother Mary Ann Sutton at 99 Gladstone Street, Peterborough).