Retirement
After retiring from active service in December 1904, Sir Evelyn Wood VC took a house at Upminster (Essex), and became chairman of the Association for the City of London. On 11 March 1911 he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London. In 1913 Wood was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).
He became colonel of the Royal Horse Guards in November 1907. He was a governor of Gresham's School from 1899 to 1919.
As a qualified barrister, he had become Honorary Colonel of the 14th Middesex (Inns of Court) Rifle Volunteer Corps in Nov 1899 and supported its incorporation as an officer training unit in the new Territorial Force in 1908.
Wood's autobiography appeared in 1906. In retirement he wrote Our Fighting Services (1916) and Winnowed Memories (1917) which one historian described as “stuffed with adulatory letters he had received, extracts of speeches he had given and anecdotes in which his wisdom or cleverness figured”.
Wood died in 1919, and was buried with full military honours in the Military Cemetery at Aldershot in Hampshire. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.
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