Cemetery: Messines Ridge (N.Z.) Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: Mesenwest-Vlaanderen
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Official Number: 26845
Unit: 2nd Bn. Auckland Regiment N.Z.E.F..
Country of Service: New Zealand
Details: Killed in action 7th June 1917. Age 28. Son of Samuel Hood of 57. Grosvenor Park Tunbridge Wells England and the late Lucy Hood. Enlisted in the Canadian Force invalided out went to New Zealand for health reasons and re-enlisted proceeding to the Front with the New Zealand Forces.
Photograph by Jean-Michel Van Elslande/David Milborrow