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About Charles Carroll Wood
- Charles Taylor Wood DSO CD (b.
- c.1874-11 November 1899) was a Canadian army officer, a lieutenant who was the first Canadian to die in the Second Boer War in South Africa.
- He is the namesake of Chaswood, Nova Scotia.
- Charles Taylor Wood was the youngest of eleven children of Captain John Taylor Wood and his wife.
- A former US Navy officer, John Wood had sympathized with his grandmother's southern family.
- After the American Civil War began, he resigned his commission and became a Captain in the Confederate States Navy.
- He was the great-grandson of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (1849-1850).
- Wood's family were based in Bedford, England for a number of years and Wood was educated at the Bedford Modern School in England (1886-89).
- He then enrolled at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
- His student number at RMC Kingston was 352 and he graduated in 1896. Wood joined the army and served with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
- He died on 11 Nov 1899 of wounds suffered in action during the South Africa Anglo Boer War.
- He was the first Canadian Officer to fall in battle during the Boer War.
- He is commemorated on the RMC Memorial Arch. His oldest brother, Zachary Taylor Wood CMG (1860–1915) was acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory of Canada.
- His nephew Stuart Taylor Wood later served as Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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