Henry Woods (British Army officer)

Major-General Henry Gabriel Woods, CB, MVO, MBE, MC, DL (7 May 1924 – 19 September 2019) was a British Army officer.

Henry Woods
Born(1924-05-07)7 May 1924
Died19 September 2019(2019-09-19) (aged 95)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands heldNorth East District
Royal Armoured Corps Centre
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
Battles/warsSecond World War
Korean War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Member of the Royal Victorian Order
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross

Military career

Educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Oxford, Woods was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1944 and served in North West Europe during the Second World War.[1] He also saw action during the Korean War.[1] He became commanding officer of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1965.[1] He went on to be Commandant, Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1969, British Military Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1973 and General Officer Commanding North East District in 1976.[2] Woods was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1979 Birthday Honours.[3]

Personal life

Woods married Imogen Elizabeth Birchenough Dodd in 1953; they had two daughters.[1]

He died on 19 September 2019 at the age of 95.[4]

gollark: CIWS?
gollark: It could launch tiny comsats at several kilometres a second.
gollark: I hope they integrate some sort of on-planet construction method. I once made a Minmus colony with (modded-in) mass drivers and onboard construction stuff.
gollark: It manages to compensate for the horrible design of my vehicles.
gollark: I'm somewhat embarrased to admit that I generally just make mechjeb do my takeoffs.

References
  1. Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-1414-8
  2. "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  3. "No. 47869". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1979. p. 2.
  4. Woods
Military offices
Preceded by
Geoffrey Collin		 General Officer Commanding North East District
1976–1980		 Succeeded by
Ian Baker
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