Arthur Holroyd
O'Hara Wood
Male
Australia
1890-01-10
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1918-10-06
Saint-Quentin-de-Rancanne, Poitou-Charentes, France
From the internet:
In 1913, Arthur O’Hara Wood won the men's singles title at the New South Wales Championships in Sydney and the same title at the joint Australasian Championships/Victorian Championships in Melbourne in 1914. In the latter tournament he beat his compatriot Gerald Patterson in the final, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7 ,6-1.
In 1915, after the outbreak of the First World War, O’Hara Wood joined the Royal Flying Corps. He carried out training work in England in 1916 and was also temporarily transferred to the Australian Flying Corps in France. On July 17, 1918, he celebrated his third anniversary in the war, and was appointed to an important post at a flying school in England.
In 1918, the then Major Arthur O’Hara Wood was in command of a squadron when, during a patrol over Saint-Quentin, France, another aircraft flew into his. He died from multiple injuries on October 6, 1918, at the 37th Casualty Clearing Station from multiple injuries. He is buried at the Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery in Bray-sur-Somme, France.
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From The Argus, 22 October 1918
Obituary – Arthur O’Hara Wood
Sincere regret will be expressed at the news of the death in France of Maior Arthur Holroyd O’Hara Wood, Royal Flying Corps, elder son of Mr John O’Hara Wood, the well-known barrister [and his wife, née Catherine Compton]. Major O’Hara Wood was an Old Melburnian with a distinguished school and University career.
He was equal head of the Melbourne Grammar School with Captain H. G. Colville, with whom he was on the Alfred Hospital staff when war broke out. He was proxime accessit for the physics exhibition at the Senior Public examination in 1908 and entering Trinity College in 1909, he won the prize for forensic medicine. He graduated M.B. Ch.B. at the Melbourne University, with honours in surgery and obstetrics in 1914.
He was a well-known athlete, being in the Grammar School cricket, football, and lawn tennis teams. He was the public schools’ tennis champion in 1903 and represented Victoria at lawn tennis against New South Wales for three years and also against South Australia. He won the lawn tennis single championship of New South Wales in 1913. He also had the uncommon distinction of being a triple blue of the Melbourne University, gaining his colours in cricket tennis and rifle-shooting.
He was on the staff of the Alfred Hospital as resident medical officer when war broke out. Soon afterwards he went to England to take up flying, and made such progress that his promotion was rapid and only a few weeks ago news was received of his having gained his majority.
1909 - 1915
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42
35
1915 - Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament (Amateur)
1914 - Australian Open (Grandslam)
1914 - Victorian Championships (Amateur)
1913 - New South Wales Championships (Amateur)
1912 - Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament (Amateur)
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Samuel Percival England
6-1
6-1
6-4
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Dr. Charles Ray Lister
6-2
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Leslie Norman Roebuck
6-2
6-2
6-4
Final
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Harry Alabaster Parker
6-2
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Norman Roberts
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Thomas King (Timothy) Fitchett
6-0
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Charles Simmill Buckley
6-4
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Rupert Wertheim
6-3
6-0
3-6
6-4
Final
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Gerald Patterson
6-4
6-3
5-7
6-1
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Norman Roberts
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Thomas King (Timothy) Fitchett
6-0
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Charles Simmill Buckley
6-4
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Rupert Wertheim
6-3
6-0
3-6
6-4
Final
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Gerald Patterson
6-4
6-3
5-7
6-1
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
H.J. Megaw
6-0
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Charles Simmill Buckley
3-6
6-1
6-1
5-7
6-2
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Horace Rice
3-6
6-3
6-4
2-6
7-5
Semifinals
Rodney Heath 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
6-4
7-9
3-6
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Gordon Wright
8-6
ret.
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Ralph Joseph Goodman
6-2
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Ashley Campbell
6-3
6-1
6-3
Final
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
James Anderson
6-3
4-6
6-1
3-6
6-0
Round 1
Gordon Wright 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
3-6
4-6
6-4
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Second Lieutenant John Alexander (Alec) Raws
6-0
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Pat O'Hara Wood
6-4
6-2
6-1
Semifinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Rupert Wertheim
6-3
6-0
6-1
Final
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Alfred Dunlop
1-6
6-1
6-4
6-6
ret.
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Askin Ormond Foster
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Samuel Percival England
6-1
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Horace Rice 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
7-5
6-3
2-6
6-1
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Alfred William Foster
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Samuel Percival England
6-1
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Horace Rice 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
7-5
6-3
2-6
6-1
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
W.F. Sheppard
6-2
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Frank Fisher
6-4
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Geoffrey Morton Ollivier 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
6-3
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Dr Alan Bothwell McCutcheon
6-2
6-1
3-6
6-3
Round 2
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Thomas Jermingham Richard Quill
6-1
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
Robert Monteith Rolland
3-6
6-3
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Stanley Doust 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
7-5
6-2
1-6
6-2
Round 1
Arthur O'Hara Wood 1 *
A.P. Gardiner
6-4
6-2
4-3
ret.
Quarterfinals
Tony Wilding 1 *
Arthur O'Hara Wood
6-0
6-4
6-0