WOOD, Noel Wray

Taukkyan War Cemetery, MyanmarCredit: CWGC

Major
2nd Battalion
7th Rajput Regiment

Noel was born on the 23rd of December 1922 in Newport to Major Sidney & Florence of 124 High Street, Newport.

Noel, aged 22, was Killed in Action on the 8th of April 1945 & buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery in Myanmar & now rests alongside 5,579 of his comrades, beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker, bearing the family inscription: “ONLY SON OF MAJOR AND MRS. S.H.H. WOOD, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. "UT PROSIM" (That I May Serve)”.

Noel is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.