Charles HOOD

06 October 1916

TWO ADDINGHAM MEN MISSING

Mr. Wm. Bell, of Chapel Lane, has received information from the War Office that his son, Pte. Frederick W. Bell, of the West Riding Regiment, was posted as missing on September 3rd. Pte. Bell is 21 years of age, single and joined up on April 3rd, and has been at the Front two months.–Mr. Isaac Hood has received information that his son, Pte. Charles Hood, is missing since September 3rd. Pte. Hood is 21 years old.

06 June 1919

ADDINGHAM – MISSING SINCE SEPTEMBER 1917

A year and a half has passed without any news of Private Charles Hood, of the 1/5th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, son of Mr. Isaac Hood of 4 Bolton Road, Addingham, who joined the Army February 16th 1915, and was reported missing September 3rd 1917, aged 22 years. In a letter from the National Council of Young Men’s Christian Association dated December 13th 1917, replying to one from his parents, it was stated that “notwithstanding the fact that diligent enquiries have been made at home and abroad, we fear that the soldiers who were missing from the West Ridings in July 1917 cannot have survived. This was, as you know, the first days of the Great Offensive on the Somme Front, and the battle was everywhere very violent. In the stress of the incessant fighting men had little opportunity for noticing the movements of their comrades, and we have reluctantly given up all hope of hearing anything of Pte. C. Hood’s fate, though the prisoners’ lists are closely watched for all the names of missing men.”

We assure Mr. and Mrs. Hood of our sincere sympathy in their trouble.