Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood (1890 - 1918)

Born 10 Jan 1890 in St Kilda, Colony of Victoria.

Ancestors

Died 6 Oct 1918 at age 28 in Somme, Hauts-de-France, France [uncertain]

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Biography

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Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood was born in January 1890. He was the son of John James O'Hara Wood and his wife Kate Holroyd.

Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood was educated at the Ingleton Preparatory School and Kindergarten, and later the Melbourne Grammar School before attending Trinity College, Melbourne University from 1908. He graduated as M.B., Ch. B. and worked for a short time at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Dr. Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood was one of the leading Australian male tennis players before World War I. In a career culminating in him winning the Australasian Men's Singles Championship in 1914. During the First World War he served as a Royal Air Force pilot in Europe where he was killed.

Major Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood passed away in 1918 at 37th Casualty Clearing Station from the multiple injuries he suffered in a plane crash over Saint-Quentin in France on the 4th of October 1918. And he is buried at the Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery in Bray-sur-Somme.

Sources

• Victoria Births, Deaths & Marriages. BIRTH: WOOD, Arth Holroyd Ohara - event: Birth - mother: Cath Compton Ohar HOLROYD - father: Jno Jas Ohara - place of birth: ST KILDA - registration year: 1890 - registration no. 7992/1890. first accessed online on the 11th of December, 2022 from the Victorian Family History Search searchable database at: https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history

• UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS— NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1909. from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Thursday 30 December 1909, Page 6. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10757264?searchTerm=%22Arthur%20O%27hara%20Wood%22

• UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Saturday 6 January 1912, Page 16. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11644202?searchTerm=%22Arthur%20O%27hara%20Wood%22

• VICTORIAN CHAMPION KILLED. from The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) of Saturday 26 October 1918, Page 18. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140213542?

• MAJOR ARTHUR HOLROYD O'HARA WOOD ©2022 Commonwealth War Graves Commission. first accessed online on the 5th of December, 2022 at: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/535825/arthur-holroyd-o-hara-wood/

• Find a Grave, database and images accessed 09 December 2022, memorial page for Major Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood (10 Jan 1890–4 Oct 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #56419214, citing Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Maintained by Coleman ✿ (contributor 47076912).

• Arthur O'Hara Wood from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 5th of December, 2022 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_O%27Hara_Wood

• MCC Roll of Honour 1914-18 - by Alf Batchelder". Melbourne Cricket Club. pp. 17, 18. Retrieved 11 December 2022.

Further Reading

• INGLETON PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN. from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Saturday 26 December 1896, Page 10. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9153050?searchTerm=%22Arthur%20O%27hara%20Wood%22

• School Speech Days. from the Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954) of Saturday 21 December 1901, Page 15. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170608898/20311361

• TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Tuesday 15 December 1908, Page 4. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10179479?searchTerm=%22Arthur%20O%27hara%20Wood%22

• TENNIS CHAMPION. from The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) of Thursday 7 March 1912, Page 2. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241501163?

• Lawn Tennis from the Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917) of Wednesday 2 December 1914, Page 5. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155522894? & https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155522867

• PATRIOTIC PRIZE WINNERS: ARTHUR AND PAT O'HARA WOOD as published in the Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917) of Wednesday 10 March 1915, Page 7. first accessed on TROVE on the 3rd of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155526822?

• MEN from the Graphic of Australia (Melbourne, Vic. : 1916 - 1918) of Thursday 31 October 1918, Page 21. first accessed on TROVE on the 3rd of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/153587297?searchTerm=%22Pat%20O%27Hara%20Wood%22

• Pathos. from the Sporting Judge (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) of Saturday 9 November 1918, Page 2. first accessed on TROVE on the 11th of December, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154793396?

• Legends of the court dated January 17, 2005 as retrieved from the AGE Newspaper website. Copyright © 2022

• Speculum - University of Melbourne no. 92 May 1915, page 111 (page 113 of the PDF) a free download from the University of Melbourne website.

• Before it was the Australian Open it was the… dated: JANUARY 27, 2015 AT 17:48 - BY ADMIN - IN SPORT, SUCH WAS LIFE ©2022 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA

• Arthur O'Hara Wood from the DB4TENNIS website (dated September 20, 2020) ©2022 db4tennis.com