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Edwin John Hood
Service Number:
Regiment & Unit/Battalion
64th Foot, 98th Foot and
North Staffordshire Regiment.
Date of Death
1973, Warwickshire.
Buried or commemorated at
Broadwas Roll of Honour
Country of Service
United Kingdom
Additional Info
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel & Eleanor Hood
Family history
Samuel Arthur Hood married, Eleanor Jane Dunn, 3rd November 1894, at Whittington. Their son was Edwin John Hood,
born 16th June, 1897, at Whitington, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
1911 Census
Samuel Arthur Hood - Head - aged 44 - b. 1867, Stone, Staffordshire - Occupation, Licensed Victualer [Army Pensioner]
Eleanor Jane Hood - Married - aged 39 - b. 1873, Wellington, Shropshire. [6 children, 4 alive, 2 died]
Grace Eileen Hood - Daughter - aged 15 - b. 1896, Dublin, Ireland. [Single, at School]
Edwin John Hood - Son - aged 13 - b. 1898, Whitington, Lichfield, Staffordshire.[Single, at School]
Dorothy Hood -
Daughter - aged 7 - b. 1904, Whitington, Lichfield, Staffordshire. [at School]
Edna May Hood - Daughter - aged 3 - b. 1908, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Edwin John Hood married, Isabel Kate Mary Davies 2nd qtr., 1925, [Bromyard district]
!939 Register
Edwin J. Hood - b. 16th June 1895 - Occupation, Demonstrator Agricultural Machinery.
Isabel K. M. Hood - b. 14th May 1900- Occupation, Domestic Duties.
Edwin John Hood - b. 24th November 1926 [ At School]
Address: 13 Upton Grove, Birmingham .
[As far as I can see Edwin may well have been in the same army as his father Samuel Hood; as the
64th Foot, 98th Foot
and North Staffordshire Regiment was renamed The North Staffordshire (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment in 1920]
64th Foot, 98th Foot and North Staffordshire Regiment.
On return from India in 1861, the regiment spent six years in England, moving to Malta in 1867, then Ireland in 1872.
In 1874, line infantry battalions were linked in pairs, and the 64th formed a joint depot with the 98th (Prince of Wales's)
Regiment of Foot at Limerick. The depot moved to Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1880. Up to 1879 the 64th was stationed in
various parts of the United Kingdom, often performing police duties. The regiment returned to Ireland in 1879, based at
Templemore, County Tipperary and it was based here when it was formally amalgamated with the 98th to become the
Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment on 1 July 1881.
The regiment was renamed The North Staffordshire (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment in 1920. In 1959 the North
Staffordshire and South Staffordshire Regiments amalgamated to form The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).
In September 2007 The Staffordshire Regiment amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and
Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form The Mercian Regiment, in which the Staffords became the 3rd (Staffordshire) Battalion.
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