“Admiralty, 7th September 1855.
“Sir,—In accepting the resignation of your son, Mr. E. Wood, I am to express their Lordships’ regret that so gallant an officer is lost to the Naval Service.
“To the Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart.”
[47] Extract from the Despatch of Lord Raglan to Lord Panmure:—
“Before Sevastopol, 23rd June 1855.
“My Lord,—I must not omit to mention the following officers of the Royal Navy who particularly distinguished themselves on the 18th June:—Messrs. Wood (severely wounded) and Daniel, who have been through the whole siege.—I have, etc.,
Raglan.”
[48] Riding trousers.
[49] “Colonel Vivian, who commanded, immediately ordered Major Brotherton to charge with the 14th Dragoons across the bridge, but it was an ill-judged order, and the impossibility of succeeding so manifest that when Brotherton, noted throughout the Army for his daring, galloped forward, only two men and one Subaltern, Lieutenant Southwell, passed the narrow bridge with him, and they were all taken.”—Napier’s Peninsular War, vol. vi. p. 391.
[50] My uncle, Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, bought my Lieutenancy on the 1st February.