Ancestor Details
Acsestor's Name: Cecil Talbot Woods
Ancestor's date of birth: 21/02/1875
Ancestor's date of death: 07/08/1915
Cause of Death: Killed in action Walkers Ridge, the Nek, Gallipoli (Body never recovered)
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born Mudgee NSW
Service Number: 151
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment:
Unit: 'C' Sqn 1 NSWMR
Rank attained in Boer War: 2LT, Date Effective: 01/01/1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): CAPT, Date Effective: 01/04/1915
Murray Page: 58 & 67
Contingent: Second New South Wales
Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900
Other Boer War Service: Commissioned at the end of 1900 into the British Army as a 2Lt in the 2nd Bn The Worcestershire Regt when men from this Regiment and others formed a company of mounted infantry to fight the Boer Commandos.
Memorial details: No known grave commemorated at the Lone Pine Monument Gallipoli and on the Wall of Rememberance AWM Canberra
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Dreifontein, Orange Free State and Transvaal clasps; King's South Africa Medal with SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Father had been a captain in the army, brother served in NSWCB and 1ACH.
Details of service in war: February 1900 - March 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900) with 2 NSWMR. Wounded Dreifontein 10 March 1900. Then commissioned into the British Army (5th Mounted Infantry Bn, Worcestershire Regt Coy) fighting Boer Commandos in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Moved to Victoria and was an accountant residing in Malvern in 1914 and an area officer for the Militia. Enlisted in 8th ALHas a 2lt promoted Lt then T/Capt prior to departure from Heliopolis for Gallipoli. Killed in August 1915 during the Battle of the Nek. Five brothers served in WW1 one of whom a trooper with 1ALH died of wounds received at Gallipoli and was buried at sea.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Bruce Eaton, Manly Vale NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Nephew
