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DATE OF AM ACTION: 17/04/1916 Warloy, France.
Little is known about Lieutenant Douglas Wood of the 19th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers other than his service record which states that he went to France on 20th October 1915 and later served in the RAF. He was presented with his AM by King George V at Buckingham Palace on 5th February 1917.
AM CITATION:
At Warloy, on the 17th April, 1916, while a class of thirty men was under instruction in bomb throwing, one of the men threw a live bomb, which failed to clear the bank behind which the throwers were sheltering, and started to roll down the bank towards the class. Lieutenant Wood sprang forward and tried to seize the bomb while it was falling. He failed to do so, but picked it up from the bottom of the trench, and was in the act of throwing it away when it exploded, blowing off his righthand and severely injuring his back. But for the officer’s prompt and gallant conduct, there is no doubt that several lives would have been lost.
BURIAL LOCATION: UNKNOWN.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
