Description:A remembrance card for Corporal Alfred (Alf) Wood 201974, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Before the war he was an assistant at Messrs. Watkins, Price and Webb's grocers on Eastgate Street, Stafford. Following the outbreak of World War I he joined the North Staffordshire Regiment and was soon drafted to Ireland when the Easter Rising broke out. While there he was promoted to lance-corporal. He arrived in France in February 1917 and was made full corporal, but was killed in action in France by a shell explosion on 30 November 1917, aged 22. Alf Wood was buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.
At the time of his death his parents William and Annie Wood were living at 41 Marston Road, Stafford.