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Wilf Wood brown plaque

Stockport, Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Private Wilf Wood V.C. Remembering the life of railwayman Wilf Wood who was awarded the Victoria Cross for an act of most conspicuous bravery and initiative on 28th October 1918 near Casa Van in Italy. A unit on the right flank having been held up by hostile machine gunners and snipers, Private Wood

worked forward with his Lewis gun, enfiladed the enemy machine gun nest and cause 140 to surrender. The advance continued until a hidden machine gun opened fire at point blank range. Without a moment

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