Hood, TSS
(1895 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
22nd June 1895
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1908 - 1912
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
741 Casilla Correos Estacion once, Buenos Aires/River Plate House, Finsbury Circus
REGIMENT
Royal Naval Air Service
FINAL RANK:
Flight Sub Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
3rd May 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
21
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
At Sea
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Chatham Naval Memorial, 25
Flight Sub Lieutenant Thomas Samuel Stanley Hood
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 22nd 1895, Thomas was the eldest son of a British couple, railway worker Edward Hood and his wife, Jennie. He first came to London to come to the Prep in 1906, before joining the College in the summer of 1908, and through his four years at Dulwich was a boarder in Elm Lawn. After leaving he returned to Buenos Aires, where he entered the Traffic Department of the Buenos Aires Western Railway.
In the spring of 1916 Thomas came to England to enlist for military service, and that July obtained a commission as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service. He became a fully qualified pilot that November, and the following March proceeded overseas for active service. On May 3rd he was returning from a raid behind enemy lines when his plane came down at sea, around two miles from the shore; it was the last time he was seen.
