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Military service
Service number:
A/21386
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 11, 1921
Glen Williams, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of William and Lillian Hood. Raised by his aunt, Mrs. Mary Everson. Brother of Pte. Samuel John Hood, also deceased at Dieppe. Brother of Flight Lieutenant William John, Royal Air Force Transport Command, Arthur and Annie Evelyn. He served in Canada from 8 August 1939 to 16 July 1940 and in the United Kingdom from 17 July 1940 to 18 August 1942.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Edward Hood
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private THOMAS EDWARD HOOD is one of twenty members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. One of these soldiers, H.J. BOULTINGHOUSE was taken prisoner and subsequently died on January 24, 1944, while a Prisoner of War. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 82 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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