Norman Hill WOODS.
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- Norman Hill WOODS. Military Cross. Lieutenant 3rd attached to 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Born 1892 to John and Agnes Stewart Woods.
Promoted to temporary 2nd Lieutenant
Supplement to London Gazette dated 3 March 1917.
Citation.
Temp 2nd Lt Norman Hill Woods R. Innis Fus.
For conspicuous gallantry in action. He carried out a successful raid with marked ability and captured two unwounded prisoners. Although heavily engaged during the retirement from the enemy’s trench, he brought his party back with no casualties.
Killed in action at St Julien 16 August 1917 aged 25. His father was granted a war gratuity 25 September 1918 revised 5 January 1920
Commemorated on family headstone in Holywood Cemetery, Holywood, County Down, also on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
