David Edward Wood
1812–94
Soldier. Trained at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; commissioned in the Royal Artillery, 1829; lieutenant, 1831; captain, 1846; regimental colonel, 1860; general, 1877. Served with distinction in the Cape of Good Hope, 1842, the Crimea campaign, 1855–7, and in suppressing the Indian mutiny, 1857–9, where he served as brigadier-general commanding the field and horse artillery at the final seige of Lucknow. Knighted, 1859.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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