Education
O'Hara Wood was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and attended Trinity College, Melbourne University in 1908.
O'Hara Wood was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and attended Trinity College, Melbourne University in 1908.
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. He was temporarily transferred to the Australian Flying Corps in France, then on 17 July 1918, when he celebrated his third anniversary at the war, he has been appointed to an important post at flying school in England.
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.