had been an officer in the U.S. Navy, but with the outbreak of the Civil War resigned, later joining the Confederate Marine Corps, and later served as an office in the famed ironclad Virginia/Merrimac during her encounter with the USS Monitor. He afterwards became a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. After the war John Taylor Wood relocated to Canada. Wood is the nephew of RMC Graduate No. 352, British Army Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood (1876-1899), who died of wounds in South Africa in 1899 as a member of the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) during the Second Boer War. Wood's three sons and two daughters, Donald Zachary Taylor Wood (KIA, 1944), Constables John Taylor Wood II and Theodore Herschel Taylor Wood, also served on the Force. His son Herschel was killed on duty in 1950. Both Herschel and his father are buried in the RCMP Depot in Regina. Wood's son John retired from the RCMP as Inspector in 1988. References 1889 births 1966 deaths Canadian anti-communists Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners Canadian people of American descent Zachary Taylor family Royal Military College of Canada alumni Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Canadian coroners