CAPT. CECIL STRACHAN WOOD, EAST YORKSHIRE REGT. DIED OF WOUNDS AT THE BASE HOSPITAL, HAVRE, DECEMBER 2ND, 1914. AGED 41. At the School 1890—92 (School House). Capt. C. S. Wood was the third son of the late Rev. Canon Joseph Wood, D.D., Headmaster of Tonbridge School 1890—98 and of Harrow School 1898—1910, and subsequently Canon Residentiary and Vice-Dean of Rochester Cathedral till his death on June 19th, 1923. The eldest son, the Rev. Charles H. T. Wood, after being Assistant Master and Chaplain at Marlborough, was appointed to the Headmastership of Sherborne, but his health broke down almost immediately, and he died of pernicious anaemia within a year of his appointment. The second son. Sir John Barry Wood, K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O., C.S.I., has had a distinguished career in India, and became Political Secretary to the Government of India at the age of 44. The three younger sons came to Tonbridge with their father in 1890. The fourth, Capt. Frederick Joseph Wood, entered the Indian Public Works Department in 1901 and transferred to the Military Works Division in 1908 and to the Indian Finance Department in 1910. He obtained a temporary commission in 1915, but, after serving in East Africa and Palestine in 1916 with the 101st K.G.O. Grenadiers, he was invalided home, and, becoming attached to the R.F.C. in 1917, served with the R.A.F. as an administrative officer till 1919. The youngest, Edward Llewellyn Montague Wood, was until recently in a bank in India, and was not able to come home to serve. Cecil Strachan Wood was in the Sixth Form 1890—92, in the Cricket XI. 1891 and 1892, in the Football XV. 1891. After passing through Sandhurst he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1894 and obtained his Captaincy in 1899. In 1903 he was seconded for service as Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer Battn. North Staffordshire Regiment, and held this post till 1908. He retired from the Army in 1910 and subsequently became Secretary to Aldeburgh Golf Club. On August 7th, 1914, immediately after the outbreak of the War, he rejoined his old regiment, and going out to France on November 27th, died of wounds at the Base Hospital, Havre, on December 2nd, 1914.