Arthur O'Hara Wood

Who was Arthur O'Hara Wood?

Arthur Holroyd O'Hara Wood was an Australian male tennis player.

O'Hara Wood was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and attended Trinity College, Melbourne University in 1908.

O'Hara won the men's singles tennis championship of NSW in 1913 and of Victoria in 1914. In 1914 he won the Australasian Championships, played in Melbourne, defeating compatriot Gerald Patterson in the final in four sets. His brother Pat O'Hara Wood was also a tennis player and won the Australasian Championships in 1920 and 1923.

In 1915, after the outbreak of the First World War, O'Hara Wood joined the Royal Flying Corps. He saw service in France and did instructional work in England in 1916. In 1918 Major O'Hara Wood was in command of a squadron when during a patrol over Saint-Quentin on 4 October 1918, another aircraft flew into his. He died on 6 October 1918, at the 37th Casualty Clearing Station from multiple injuries. He is buried at the Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery in Bray-sur-Somme.