Thom's Irish Who's Who/Nugent, Maj.-Gen. Sir Oliver Stewart Wood

NUGENT, Maj.-Gen. Sir Oliver Stewart Wood, K.C.B. (1922), C.B. (1917), D.S.O (1896), Croix de Guerre (France); D.L., J.P. Co. Cavan Educated at Harrow. Joined King's Royal Rifles 1883; Major Gen., 1916; served in Hazara Expedition, 1891; Miranzai Expedition, 1891; Isazai Expedition, 1892; Chitral relief force, 1895; S. African War, 1899-1900; European War, 1914-18; A.D.C. to the King, 1909-16. Son of late Major-Gen. St. George Mervyn Nugent, of Farren Connell, Co. Cavan; b. 1860; m. 1899, Catherine Percy, dau of Thomas Evans Lees, of Beaucroft, Wiraborne. Dorset, and has issue one son and two daus. Res.: Farren Connell, Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan; Kildare Street Club, Dublin; Army and Navy and Carlton Clubs, London.