Sydney Walter Hood

[watchdog]

This is one of more than twenty requests for information and help that I am hoping to post today. They are all in relation to TF soldiers who enlisted on or about the 5 August 1914 and almost all of whom survived the war. The common denominator is the fact that they were all patent examiners serving in the Patent Office prior to the outbreak of war.

Normally I would be able to pursue most of the basic work myself and would only be coming to all of you for help with the 'extras' but I am under some pressure of time. I hope you don't mind. But then again it's the sort of thing almost all of us enjoy – finding out about these men who fought in the Great War. So I'm hoping that you will appreciate the challenge.

The work is in support of my dissertation for the Birmingham MA in First World War studies and therefore if any of you do have information which might assist me I would be grateful if you could also quote the source of that information.

I'm not acting entirely blind of course and here is the information that I've already found out about Sydney Walter Hood:

Hood attended Kings College London before joining the Patent Office in February 1908. He appears to have been mobilised as a pre-war territorial in the HQ Coy East Anglian Div Train ASC (TF) where he is shown as a Lt. By 1916 he shown as a Capt in No 3 (East Midlands) Bde Trg Coy. In 1917 Capt Hood is being attached to the Ministry of Munitions and later he seems to have returned to work as a civil servant in the BoT Bankruptch Department.

The sorts of information I'm hoping to glean are: Did Hemens ever deploy abroad? Any 1911 Census details? And of course anything else that might occur to all of you.

Thanks

[Phil Evans]

Watchdog,

His medal index card is on TNA and Ancestry, indexed under his full name.

He was awarded British War and Victory Medals and 15 Star Entered Theatre 2b (Gallipoli) 8/9/15

Address given as Orchard Bungalow, Broad Street Common, Guildford.

The most likely contender for his service record at Kew is WO 374/34500.

Phil

[watchdog]

Thanks Phil. Another Gallipoli man. That makes two now.