Photo Brian Chandler

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

The Berwickshire News and General Advertiser, Tuesday 16/01/1940, page 3, reported the following:

BERWICK AIR GUNNER KILLED
Collision With Lorry During Black-Out
Cycling along a dark road to rejoin his unit, William Meston Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wood, of 59, St. Aidan’s Road, Berwick, came into collision with a lorry.

He was severely injured, and died after removal to hospital. His parents received word on Friday that he was seriously ill and that he had died on Sunday.

Wood was 19 years of age and would have reached his 20th birthday next month. He had been in Cambridgeshire. He joined the Royal Air Force 11 months ago and was an air gunner.

The funeral is to take place on Wednesday, when full military honours will be accorded.

He is remembered in Berwick on B25.08

The CWGC entry for Air Craftman 2nd Class Wood