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Originally Posted by CXX  If memory serves me right Wood was killed in an air raid on a hospital in Torquay. |
His service file doesn't indicate exactly how he died (his casualty file hasn't been digitsed) but does state that he was seriously ill for the preceeding few months.
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another major raid on Torquay took place on 25 October, during this raid RAF Hospital, Torquay based at the Palace Hotel was severely damaged during a bombing run, when 19 people lost their lifes and a total of 43 casualties were sustained. The East Wing of the hotel was severely damaged and the building was put out of action for the rest of the war. The empty hotel was damaged again in a second raid just months later which confirmed the abandonment of the facility. This event was recently commemmorated with a memorial service at the Palace Hotel on the 25th October to mark 65 years since the tragedy
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