Maurice Wood

Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood, DSC (26 August 1916 – 24 June 2007) was an Anglican bishop in the Evangelical tradition.

During World War II, Wood landed with his Royal Marine unit on the Normandy beaches on D-Day.

He officiated at the first service on liberated French soil, aided by the portable organ he had insisted on bringing ashore.

He espoused conventional Evangelical views – for example on women's ordination - and supported Mary Whitehouse in her campaigns.

He was the first Bishop of Norwich to pay a formal visit to the Church of England's Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.