LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Carlyle Woolnough WOOD MBE
Service No: 4817
Born: Caulfield VIC, 17 March 1895
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 March 1921
Unit: No. 7 Central Recovery Depot
Awarded the Order of the British Empire – Member (Military) (MBE), 1 January 1943 (RAAF Honours List)
Died: Illness, Heidelberg VIC, 7 September 1945, Aged 50 Years
Buried: Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frederick George and Alyce Wood; husband of Ivy May Wood, of Caulfield
Roll of Honour: Melbourne VIC
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flight Lieutenant Wood served as a Gunner in the 8th Field Artillery Battery during World War I with Regimental number 20018.
On 7 September 1945, Flight Lieutenant Wood, Administrative and Special Duties, died of an illness at No. 6 RAAF Hospital, Heidelberg.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/44/352