Source: Veteran’s Banner Placement List 2025
Service highlights
- Name: Jim Wood
- Rank: Chief Petty Officer 1st Class (Royal Canadian Navy)
- Community recognition: Included in the Perth Regiment Veterans Br.236 “Veterans Banner Placement List 2025”, with banner placement noted at Milt Dunnell Field
- Service eras remembered locally: Second World War and Korean War
A Life and Service Remembered
In the Branch 236 banner project, Jim Wood is remembered by a senior naval rank, Chief Petty Officer 1st Class, a level reached through years of skill, responsibility, and steady leadership at sea.
Local remembrance also connects him to two defining chapters of Canada’s naval history, the Second World War and the Korean War. A naval career that spanned those years meant more than one kind of service: long periods away from home, demanding routines, and work that rarely made headlines but always mattered. Whether at sea or alongside shipmates in shore establishments, Chief Petty Officer Wood would have been the kind of person others relied on when conditions were difficult and decisions had to be made quickly.
This page is part of our effort to ensure every name we honour is treated as more than a line on a list. If you are a family member, friend, or former shipmate and can help confirm details such as ships served in, trade, postings, service number, photographs, or a short memory, we would be grateful to add them so his record can be told with the specificity it deserves.
Service record and roles
These items are not yet confirmed from accessible records:
- Ships and shore establishments served with
- Trade or specialty (engineering, weapons, signals, supply, etc.)
- Korean War service details (unit, ship, dates, theatre)
- Decorations and medals