New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1238

About

Born in England

15 September 1882

Parent

Father

Richard Wood

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Lithographer

Employer

Taupiri Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

1st London Royal Engineers

4 years in the United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 34

14 November 1916

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5557 103/0124785, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Caleb Richard Wood (1882-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/925