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{{Short description|British Army officer}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Edward Allan Wood
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|birth_date= {{birth date|1865|05|06|df=yes}}
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1930|05|20|1865|05|06|df=yes}}
|birth_place= [[British India|India]]
|death_place= [[London]], England
|placeofburial= [[Highgate Cemetery]]
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|allegiance= [[United Kingdom]]
|branch= [[British Army]]
|serviceyears= 1892–1906 1914–1919
|rank= [[Brigadier General]]
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|commands= [[55th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|55th Brigade]] (1917–18) 6th Battalion [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]] (1917)
|battles= [[Jameson Raid]] [[Second Boer War]]
* [[Siege of Mafeking]]
[[First World War]] [[Irish War of Independence]]
|awards= [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Distinguished Service Order]] & [[Medal bar|Three Bars]] [[Mentioned in Despatches]] [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]] (France)
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[[Brigadier General]] '''Edward Allan Wood''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|CMG|DSO3}} (6 May 1865 – 20 May 1930) was a [[British Army]] officer. He saw service in [[Rhodesia]], the [[Second Boer War]] and the [[First World War]], and was briefly Commandant of the [[Auxiliary Division]] during the [[Irish War of Independence]].<ref>‘WOOD, Brig.-Gen. Edward Allan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U219419 accessed 31 Dec 2013]</ref><ref>Brigadier-General E. A. Wood (Obituaries), The Times Wednesday, May 21, 1930; pg. 21; Issue 45518; col C</ref>

==Early life==
Wood was born in India. He was the ninth son of Oswald Wood, a civil servant who later became a judge. Family resources were limited, and Wood joined the British Army as a private soldier in 1892, first enlisting in the [[2nd Dragoon Guards]] and later transferring to the [[17th Lancers]]. He served as an officer in the [[Bechuanaland Border Police]] ([[Botswana Police Service]]), the [[Matabeleland Mounted Police]] and the [[British South Africa Police]], in the 1890s. He joined the Bechuanaland Border Police column in the [[Jameson Raid]] in 1895–96 and was captured in the [[Transvaal Republic]]. He served with the [[Matabeleland Relief Force]] during the rebellion in 1896. He later served in the [[Second Boer War]] in 1899–1902 and was present at the [[relief of Mafeking]] in 1900. He resigned from British South Africa Police in March 1906.<ref>[http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/research/projects/lionsdonkeys/t.aspx Edward Allen Wood], University of Birmingham</ref>

==First World War==
On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Wood rejoined the British Army and became a company commander in 6th Battalion of the [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]]. He became a temporary lieutenant colonel in 1917, and won the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) and a [[Medal bar|Bar]] while commanding the 6th Battalion, the first announced in the January [[1917 New Year Honours]],<ref>First DSO: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29886/supplement/28 The London Gazette, Issue 29886, Page 28, 29 December 1916]</ref> and the second announced on 26 September 1917 (with the citation published on 9 January 1918).<ref>First Bar: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30308/supplement/9968 The London Gazette, Issue 30308, Page 9968, 26 September 1917] and [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30466/supplement/560 The London Gazette, Issue 30466, Page 560, 8 January 1918]</ref>
[[File:Grave of Brigadier General Edward Wood in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Brigadier General Edward Wood in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
Wood was promoted to brigadier general to command the [[55th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|55th Infantry Brigade]] (in the [[18th (Eastern) Division]]) on 9 November 1917, and commanded the brigade until he went sick on 24 October 1918. A second Bar to his DSO was announced on 16 September 1918, and third Bar on 12 December 1919.<ref>Second Bar: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30901/supplement/10854 The London Gazette, Issue 30901, Page 10854, 16 September 1918]</ref><ref>Third Bar: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31684/supplement/15438 The London Gazette, Issue 31684, Page 15438, 12 December 1919]</ref>

He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG) in the January 1919 New Year's Honours List and also received the French [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]].<ref>CMG: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31092/supplement/4 The London Gazette, Issue 31092, Page 4, 1 January 1919]</ref><ref>CdG: [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13540/page/4094 The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 13540, Page 4094, 17 December 1919]</ref>

==Later life==
Wood was demobilised in early 1919, and he joined the [[Auxiliary Division]] of the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] in October 1919. He was deputy commander under [[Frank Percy Crozier]], and took command in February 1921 after Crozier resigned. He was bankrupted in 1921.

He had married Myra Cotterell in 1898 and they had a son. He remarried in 1916, to Marguerite Dawson, widow of Joseph Gillott. He died 20 May 1930, from [[cirrhosis of the liver]], and was buried on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]]. He was survived by his second wife and son from his first marriage.<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=corlonli&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS84611922&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 "An Army Officer's Affairs." The Times, 18 October 1922]</ref><ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=corlonli&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS353313461&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 "Brigadier-General E. A. Wood." The Times, 21 May 1930]</ref>

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