Kenneth Wood was the son of Frederick Horace and Louise Wood, of Brighton, Sussex. Nothing is known of his life prior to joining the RAFVR. Having trained as a flight engineer the usual progression was to be posted directly to a Heavy Conversion Unit (H.C.U.) as a lone airman. In this case there is nothing to suggest anything from this normal pattern was followed and that he and the mid-upper gunner joined Clark's already set five-man crew which had arrived at the H.C.U. from an Operational Training Unit (O.T.U.) to form a standard seven-man heavy bomber crew. He was only nineteen years old when he was killed as a result of the accident to Lancaster DS737 on 16th Decemeber 1943.

Kenneth Wood and his gravestone in Brighton and Preston Cemetery, Sussex.

I thank Sgt Kenneth Wood's neice (Mrs Barbara Warnock) and nephew (Colonel(Ret) Chris Wellwood) for contacting me regarding their late uncle and to the latter for the portrait photographs of Kenneth and his gravestone in Brighton Cemetery.