{{Short description|British Army brigadier}} {{Use British English|date=January 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox military person |name= Philip Richard Wood |birth_date=February 1868 |death_date= 10 October 1945 (aged 77) |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= United Kingdom |service_years= 1887−1919 |rank= Brigadier-general |branch= British Army |commands=2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers<br />43rd Infantry Brigade<br />33rd Division |unit= Royal Irish Fusiliers |battles=First World War |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |other_work= }} Brigadier-General '''Philip Richard Wood''' (February 1868 – 10 October 1945) was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as General Officer Commanding 33rd Division during the First World War.
==Military career== Wood was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers in February 1887.<ref name=spink>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/spinkandson/docs/12003|title=Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria|date=19 July 2012|publisher=Spink | page=127|access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25670|page=602|date=4 February 1887}}</ref>
He saw action in the Nile Expedition in 1899 before becoming commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers on the Western Front in December 1914 during the First World War. After receiving a promotion to the temporary rank of brigadier general in August 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29298|page=9202|date=14 September 1915|supp=y}}</ref> he went on to be commander of the 43rd Infantry Brigade. In June 1916 he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12947|page=990|date=5 June 1916|city=e}}</ref> and after being made a substantive colonel in March 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30106|page=5405|date=1 June 1917|supp=y}}</ref> was general officer commanding (GOC) of the 33rd Division, Kitchener's Army, in September 1917,<ref name=spink/> but was replaced in November.<ref>{{cite book|last= Robbins|first= Simon|title= British Generalship on the Western Front |publisher= Routledge|location= Abingdon|year=2005|isbn=0-415-40778-8|page=32}}</ref> He was promoted again to temporary brigadier general in April 1918 and succeeded George Glas Sandeman Carey in command of the 46th (North Midland) Division's 139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30676|page=5563|date=7 May 1918|supp=y}}</ref>
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George on 23 June 1915<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29202|page=6113|date=23 June 1915|supp=y}}</ref> and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1917 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30111|page=5454|date=4 June 1917|supp=y}}</ref>
In May 1919, with the war now over, he reverted to his permanent rank of colonel.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31650|page=14025|date=18 November 1919|supp=y}}</ref>
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