244492 Dvr. Francis Joseph "Ginge" Woods British Army 702 Artisan Works Coy. Royal Engineers from:Sheffield Francis Woods was stationed at Trieste in March 1944. He was running American Macs down the coast to Dubrovnik and his rig was blown into a ravine by a mine. He survived and hunkered down in the upturned cab whist (what he believed) were Partisans shot at him. He was gone a day or so until the unit went looking for him. He'd badly broken his ankle so was evacuated back to UK and rejoined in 1946. He left the Army in 1947 and joined the Royal Navy as a stoker, leaving in 1952 as a result of a pervading skin condition brought about by being shelled by our own cruisers in the channel and enemy 88mms during the transit through France. He lied about his age to get in the army, he was born in 1925, not 1924 as says on his certificates and died in Sheffield in 1999. I recently learned he was nominated for a DSC but this was deleted because his injuries were not due to combat.
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