Philip Wood

Philip Richard Wood was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as General Officer Commanding 33rd Division during the First World War.

Military career

Wood was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers in February 1887.
He saw action in the Nile Expedition in 1899 before becoming commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers on the Western Front in December 1914 during the First World War. After receiving a promotion to the temporary rank of brigadier general in August 1915, he went on to be commander of the 43rd [Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|43rd Infantry Brigade] and, after being made a substantive colonel in March 1917, was general officer commanding of the 33rd Division in September 1917, but was replaced in November. He was promoted again to temporary brigadier general in April 1918 and succeeded George Glas Sandeman Carey in command of the 46th (North Midland) Division's 139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of [St Michael and St George] on 23 June 1915 and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1917 Birthday Honours.
In May 1919, with the war now over, he reverted to his permanent rank of colonel.