Harry Wood (aviator)

Major Harry Alison Wood MC was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.

[1] Before the war, Wood studied civil engineering at Toronto University.

On 18 June 1916, on his first combat sortie, he attacked four encroaching Germans and broke up their reconnaissance patrol.

He became a Flight Commander before March 1917, when he was assigned back in England on Home Establishment.

He went on to work for the Canadian National Railway, ending up as Chief of Development.