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{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Maximillian Wood
| image = Maximilian-wood.jpg
| country = England
| full_name = Maximillian David Francis Wood
| nickname =
| birth_date = 22 February 1873
| birth_place = [[Kamptee]], [[Bombay Presidency]],<br />[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|8|21|1873|2|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = Ismail Oglu Tepe, [[Gallipoli]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]]
| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans (India)]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1897–1902}}
| club2 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year2 = 1907
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 10
| runs1 = 196
| bat avg1 = 10.31
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 30
| deliveries1 = 1,049
| wickets1 = 34
| bowl avg1 = 14.20
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 6/51
| catches/stumpings1 = 8/–
| date = 16 January
| year = 2010
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22507.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Maximillian David Francis Wood''' {{postnominal|DSO}} (22 February 1873 – 21 August 1915) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of Captain Charles Watkins Arthur Harcourt Wood and his wife, Louisa, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Kamptee]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|page=132}}</ref> He was educated in England at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]], where he played for the college cricket team and was considered one of the best batsman the college had produced.<ref name="BOOK"/> After completing his education, he embarked on a career in the [[British Army]] by going up to the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He graduated from Sandhurst into the [[West Yorkshire Regiment]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in 1893, before gaining promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in 1895.<ref name="BOOK"/> Wood served with the West Yorkshire Regiment in [[British India]], where he played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]], making seven appearances in the [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]] between 1897 and 1902.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6935/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Maximillian Wood|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In his seven matches for the Europeans, he scored 163 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 12.53, with a highest score of 30.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6935/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Maxmillian Wood|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium bowling]], he took 34 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 13.26;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6935/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Maxmillian Wood|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> he took one [[five wicket haul]] of 6 for 51 against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] in August 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5559.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1900/01|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Wood was appointed [[aide-de-camp]] to the [[List of governors of Bombay Presidency|Governor of Bombay]], [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote|The Lord Northcote]] in November 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27251|date=27 November 1900|page=7826}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in March 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27323|date=14 June 1901|page=4002}}</ref> He served in the [[Second Boer War]], for which he was decorated for his service in the war with the [[Queen's South Africa Medal]] (six clasps) and the [[King's South Africa Medal]] (two clasps).<ref name="BOOK"/> After returning to England from service in India, Wood made a single appearance in first-class cricket for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] at [[Park Avenue (stadium)|Bradford]] in the [[1907 County Championship]]. He later made two further appearances in first-class cricket for [[H. D. G. Leveson Gower|H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI]] in 1909 against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]].<ref name="FCM"/> In the military, he was appointed an Officer in charge of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets in August 1910,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28405|date=9 August 1910|page=5794}}</ref> with restoration to his regiment in August 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28864|date=7 August 1914|page=6205}}</ref>

Wood served in the [[First World War]], being promoted to the rank of [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in December 1914,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29085|date=26 February 1915|page=2070|supp=y}}</ref> having served as a major in a temporary capacity since October 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28982|date=20 November 1914|page=9659|supp=y}}</ref> He sailed with the 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment from [[Liverpool]] in July 1915 for [[Moudros]] in preparation for the [[Gallipoli campaign]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He was appointed a temporary [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] on 15 August 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29501|date=7 March 1916|page=2547|supp=y}}</ref> and was killed in action six days later at Ismail Oglu Tepe. His body was never recovered, with Wood being commemorated at the [[Helles Memorial]].<ref name="BOOK"/> For his actions during the Gallipoli campaign, he was posthumously made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in February 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29460|date=1 February 1916|page=1337|supp=y}}</ref> He was survived by his wife, Eugenie Sybil Ward, whom he had married in December 1911.<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=22507}}

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