"IN MEMORY
OF A GREAT COLONEL"
TRIBUTE OF BRIGADE
ON HIS CROSS

LIEUTENANT COLONEL EDWARD THESIGER FRANKLAND HOOD

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

15TH MAY 1918 AGE 36

BURIED: EBBLINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


Today Colonel Hood's grave marker, a wooden cross, hangs on a pillar in All Saints, Nettleham, Lincolnshire. Colonel Hood, officer commanding 38th Brigade, died of wounds in the Casualty Clearing Station at Ebblinghem. The dedication on the wooden cross says, 'In memory of a great Colonel'. His mother had the words repeated on his permanent headstone with the explanation that this was the tribute of his brigade.