Lieutenant Walter Bertram Wood MC* (25 October 1898 – 11 November 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with thirteen confirmed aerial victories.
[4] At the age of ten he was the first Boy Scout to be registered in Grimsby and he helped form a local troop; he later became a Scoutmaster.
On 18 June, he set an Albatros reconnaissance aircraft on fire;[2] he described the combat in an article he wrote for a scouting magazine.
His aggressive personality, that of a man capable of shooting at the enemy with a pistol if need be,[3] shows in this excerpt: Wood won four more times in June, bringing his tally to seven.
[2] Wood's final tally was one German aircraft set afire in midair, five more destroyed, and seven driven down out of control.