Arthur and Blanche Wood
Arthur was born in 1877 in Chicheley, Bucks, the son of Thomas Wood, a gardener, and his wife Mary. He married Blanche Rose in Brixworth on 14 August 1906. In 1911 they were living in Church Street, Brixworth and Arthur was working as a gardener. In 1914 he became landlord of The King’s Head in Station Road (now Brixworth Road) Spratton and moved there with Blanche.
As a married man, Arthur was probably conscripted into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1916 aged 34. He was not sent overseas, but served at home in one of the Mechanical Transport depots in this country.
At the end of the war, he returned to Spratton and continued as Landlord at The King’s Head until the early 1930s. He died in Brixworth in January 1947.
