[1] On 22 December 1928 he married Anne Alice Margaret Reyment (died 2001)[2] and had three sons and one daughter including identical twins Bill and Peter who themselves went on to be members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

[1] The funeral service was packed (Wood had been an exceptionally popular parliamentarian, esteemed even by his political opponents) and hundreds of people stood outside the church to pay their last respects.

[4] Wood, for the Labor Party, won the 1946 by-election for the seat of East Toowoomba following the death of Herbert Yeates the previous December.

[6] Out of politics for three years, Wood contested the new seat of North Toowoomba at the 1950 state election, and defeated the Liberal candidate, Ralph Weppner.

He held the role until his death the next year and on 1 April 1958, parliament gave glowing praise to Wood in a motion of condolence.