Woods, George

could be either

  George Henry Woods

  Born 1882 at Gainsborough

  Became an engineers fitters apprentice

or

  George Robert Woods

Born 1897 at Worlaby

* I don't think any of the men above are the real identities of A. Woods and G. Woods.  The surname (and 'Wood') do not appear in the Scotter Parish records nor are they present in any census of the village from 1841 to 1911.

  The Gainsborough News has been comprehensively checked from 1914 to 1922 but no-one can be linked to Scotter.  On-line resources of military service and pension records haven't helped so they continue to be a mystery,

  The Wood family from Messingham have been thoroughly looked at as have the Woods of Blyton who seem to have arrived in the area a dozen years after the end of the Great War.

   Perhaps A. and G. Woods were related, came here for labouring work after the 1911 census and were conscripted.  Unfortunately 80% of the country's military records were destroyed by German bombing in World War 2.

   The last remaining lead is connected to an Eminson woman.  The monument lists many Eminson's; the family originated from Great Gonerby in South Lincolnshire.  Caroline L. Eminson lived in that village and married her second husband George H. Woods who may have had grown up children...