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N.A. Wodehouse   to   H.D. Wyldbore-Smith

Wodehouse, Norman Atherton Son of Reverend Frederick Armine Wodehouse (1842-1921) and Alice Elizabeth Juliana Powys (died 1934). Married (22.10.1923) Theodosia Frances Boyle (born 24.06.1890), daughter of Cdr. Edward Louis Dalrymple Boyle and Theodosia Isabella Ogilvie, and widow of Douglas William Swire, Captain Shropshire Yeomanry; two sons.	18.05.1887 Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire - 04.07.1941 a/b SS Robert L. Holt (sunk by German submarines) (KIA) [Liverpool Naval Memorial]	A/S.Lt. 30.07.1906 S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 30.07.1906 Lt. 18.07.1908, seniority 30.07.1907 Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1915 Cdr. 30.06.1919 Capt. 30.06.1926 R.Adm. 02.06.1937 (retd 08.05.1940) V.Adm. (retd) 08.05.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR ? CB 02.01.1939 New Year 39 Order of Striped Tiger of China (1919) Royal Humane Society Silver Medal (1915)	Education: Royal Naval School, Lee­on­the­Solent; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defence College 15.01.1902     entered RN 1904 Midshipman, HMS Caesar, Atlantic Fleet 1905 Midshipman, HMS Bulwark, Mediterranean 1913 Gunnery Officer, HMS Warrior 1914 - 1918 served European War 30.08.1915 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) 1919 - 1922 Staff Commander on staff of Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Hawkins (light cruiser)] 16.02.1922 - (08.1923) an Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS PResident] 01.07.1924 - (05.1926) Executive Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 14.03.1927 - (07.1927) senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich 17.12.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1931 - (02.01931 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.12.1931 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 1935 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 07.05.1935 - (07.)1935 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.08.1935 - (07.1937) Flag Captain, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 19.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS President (for miscellaneous or special services) 18.02.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS President (for miscellaneous or special services) 18.10.1938 - (02.)1939 Head of British Military Mission to Portugal [HMS President[ (04.1939) no appointment listed 05.1939 - (09.1939) Rear-Admiral-in-Charge & Admiral-Superintendent  HM Dockyard Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant] 03.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) (02.1941) HMS President * 1941? - 04.07.1941 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet] * indexed, but not listed as such
Wodehouse, Philip George Son of Rev. Philip John Wodehouse (1836-1917) and Marion Bryan Wallas (1852-1922). Married 1st (25.10.1915) Beaujolois Theresa Constance Ridout (1889-1986), daughter of Arthur George Ridout (marriage dissolved 1928); one daughter. Married 2nd (06.1928) Alice Margaret Rowe (1901-1997), daughter of William Rowe.	22.11.1883 Barnstaple, Devon - 04.04.1973	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1903? S.Lt. 24.09.1904, seniority 15.09.1903 Lt. 01.04.1906 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1918 (retd 26.11.1929; own request) Capt. (retd) 26.11.1929 (reactivated 18.09.1939) (reverted to retd 1946?) DSO 17.05.1918 Mediterranean ItCrwn 21.06.1918 ?	15.01.1899     entered RN (1915) Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Gallipoli 04.1915) 22.09.1916 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Northesk (torpedo-boat destroyer) 22.01.1923 - (01.)1925 Mobilisation Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.04.1925 - (05.1926) [Commanding Officer ?,] ML 291 (motor launch) 20.05.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (for destroyers in reserve) (08.1929) no appointment listed 18.09.1939 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (depot ship, Devonport) (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) - (06.1943) not indexed, so probably reverted to the retired list, but again reactivated: 02.07.1943 - (06.1944) Senior Officer, Thames Local Defence Flotilla [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)] ? - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Wonnacott, William Ernest Son of Ernest William Wonnacott (1883-1949), and Susannah Hadassah Sarah Carpenter (1887/88-1922). Married (1937) Katie May Prideaux (20.04.1912-11.1999), from Cornwall; one daughter, one son.	15.02.1912 Devonport district, Devon - (06?).1971 Plymouth district, Hampshire	A/Wt.Shipwr. 30.11.1939 Wt.Shipwr. ?, seniority 30.11.1939 A/Cd.Shipwr. 18.06.1945 Sen.Cd.Shipwr. 01.10.1948 Shipwr.Lt. (Special Duties List) 01.01.1957 Shipwr.Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1959 (retd 15.02.1962)	1926/27? entered RN as Apprentice Shipwright 1939? - 1940? HMS Codrington (destroyer) 07.02.1940 - 16.06.1942 HMS Hermione (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-205 south of Crete] 17.06.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for duty with Naval Officer-in-Charge, Tripoli) (12.1943) no appointment listed 07.03.1944 - (06.1944) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)  * (04.1946) HMS Landswell (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base 1, Cochin) * 01.10.1946 - (07.)1948 HM Dockyard, Portland [HMS Osprey] 19.10.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) 01.07.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Howe (battleship) (for miscellaneous duties) 12.02.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) ? - (04.)1955 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.05.1955 - (01.1957) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] ? - (01.1959) HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) ? - (07.1961) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wood, George Edward Cameron Son of Edward and Julia Cameron Wood; husband of Cecily Delamere Wood, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.	10.07.1900 Bucklow district, Cheshire - 05.11.1940 (KIA) [age 40] [Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 34, column 1]	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1918 A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.10.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1928	15.07.1916     entered RN (01.1919) HMS Scorpion (destroyer) * 12.05.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer) 25.10.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1926) no appointment listed 03.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (China) 12.10.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic) 03.09.1929 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS Wallflower (sloop) (Africa) 17.04.1930 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Delphinium (sloop) (Africa) 01.01.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Centurion (target vessel) 28.08.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 09.11.1936 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.05.1937 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) 09.1940 - 05.11.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wood, Gordon Graham Son of ... Wood, and ... Milne.	21.12.1911 Chertsey district, Surrey - 03.1995 Chichester, West Sussex	T/Lt. (E) 10.06.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 20.02.1943? (reld > 04.1946)	24.01.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 08.04.1942 - (02.)1943 Engineer Officer, 16th MTB Flotilla [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA)] 20.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (10.1943) - (10.1944) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) * 30.10.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) 20.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) * indexed, but not listed as such
Woodhall, Eric Langton Son of Gerald Frederick and Hilda Sabina Fluester Woodhall.	16.12.1899 Paddington, London - 21.06.1940 (KIA) [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 15.06.1918 A/Lt. ? Lt. 27.10.1922, seniority 15.12.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1929 A/Cdr. 12.11.1939? DSO 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines [investiture 06.02.40] MVO 08.08.1932 ?	15.06.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Glorious (cruiser) (European War) 1920 HMS Centurion (Black Sea) 17.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Walrus (torpedo-boat destroyer) (01.1925) Pylmouth Division, Royal Marines 22.06.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Colombo (cruiser) (North America & West Indies) 05.06.1929 - (08.)1929 First Lieutenant, HMS Woolston (destroyer) (Mediteranean) 08.1929 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1932 - 1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Tiverton (twin screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla) 20.07.1933 - 1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Acasta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1936) no appointment listed 1936 Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 27.08.1936 - (10.1938) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for duty with Petty Officers' courses) 31.07.1939 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Eclipse (destroyer) 12.11.1939 - 21.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Howe (armed merchant cruiser)
Woodhouse, [Sir] Charles Henry Lawrence Son of Rev. A.P. Woodhouse and F.D. Woodhouse. Married (1928) Barbara Margaret, daughter of Dr H.M. Brownfield, Petersfield; three daughters. Residence: (1947) Cossington, Petersfield, Hants.	09.07.1893 East Retford district, Nottinghamshire - 23.09.1978 [Warlingham, Surrey ?]	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.03.1914 Lt. 15.04.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1927 Capt. 31.12.1934 R.Adm. 08.01.1944 V.Adm. 21.01.1948 (retd 15.08.1950) Adm. (retd) 26.01.1952 KCB 09.06.1949 HM birthday 49 [investiture 13.07.50] CB 23.12.1939 action with Admiral Graf Spee 13.12.39 Commander, Order of Merit (Chile) 06.09.1940 Concepcion earthquake 24.01.39 [award handed]  Silver Medal of Concepcion (Chile) 1939? Concepcion earthquake 24.01.39 [award handed]	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 15.05.1906 entered RN 16.12.1918 - (01.1919) 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS St Vincent (battleship) 04.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.08.1924 - (05.1926) Gunnery Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.01.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 14.01.1930 - (10.1930) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.01.1931 - (09.1932) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral, 2nd Battle Squadron & Squadron Gunnery Officer [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 01.02.1933 - (01.1934) Executive Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 23.02.1935 - (02.1937) Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.05.1937 - (07.1937) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.10.1937 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) (Battle of the River Plate 13 Dec 1939) 10.06.1940 - 01.10.1940 served at Admiralty [HMS President] 01.10.1940 - (02.1941) Director of Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.04.1942 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Howe (battleship) 08.07.1943 - 08.01.1944 Naval ADC to the King 13.03.1944 - (07.1945) Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.1946 - (04.1946) Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Implacable] 04.1948 - 04.1950 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Norfolk, later HMS Mauritius] (05.1950) no appointment listed
Woods, Charles Humphrey de Meuron Son of Ernest Woods. Married (10.04.1920) Grace Marion Collier at Beckenham Parish Church.	24.08.1894 - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Midsh. 15.05.1907 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1914 S.Lt. 15.11.1914 A/Lt. 15.06.1916 Lt. 27.02.1918, seniority 15.05.1916 (retd 02.10.1920; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1924 Cdr. (retd) 24.08.1934 (reverted to retd 18.07.1942; medically unfit)	15.05.1907     entered RN 15.01.1912 HMS Indefatigable 10.10.1918 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, HMS Vanity (destroyer) 27.02.1924 applied for Master Certificate BOT (granted 19.03.1924) 04.10.1939 04.10.1939 07.07.1940 - - - 06.1942 07.07.1940 06.1942 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) additional for duty with CCB [= Contraband Control Board?] Malta additional for staff Vice-Admiral Malta 19.06.1942 - 17.07.1942 arrived Kenya for medical board & appointment terminated (neurasthenia)
Woods, Derek Ashfield Son of ... Woods, and ... Jacks. From Churt, Surrey.	19.08.1923 Croydon district, Greater London / Kent, Surrey - 07.2004 Whyke, Chicester	Midsh. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 16.10.1942 Lt. 16.07.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1952 (General List 01.01.1957)  (retd > 01.1957, < 07.1959) DSC 01.08.1944 destruction U473 Western Approaches 06.05.44 [award posted] MID 13.06.1944 2nd Support Group, 6 U-boats sunk in 10 days	24.08.1942 - (08.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth 14.01.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Aberdeen (sloop) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.12.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Wild Goose (sloop) 16.04.1945 - (07.1945) [CO?] HMS St Bride's Bay (frigate) (04.1946) no appointment listed (07.1948)   no appointment listed 13.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Sea Eagle (05.1953) HMNZS Philomel II 26.07.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Grenville
Woods, [Sir] Wilfrid John Wentworth Son of late Sir Wilfrid Woods, KCMG, KBE, and late Ethel Maud Woods (née Palmer). Married 1st (1930) Murray Auriol Ruth Inglis (died 1956); one daughter (one son deceased). Married 2nd (1957) Joan Bridget Constance Eden.	19.02.1906 - 01.01.1975 Burley, Hampshire	Midsh. 1924 S/Lt. 1926 Lt. 1928 Lt.Cdr. 1936 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 30.06.1945 R.Adm. 07.01.1955 V.Adm. 1958 Adm. 1960 (retd 1965) GBE 1963; KCB 1960 (CB 1957); DSO 1942; Bar to DSO 1942; DL.	Education: Seabrook Lodge, Hythe, Kent; Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth 1927 joined Submarines 1935 First Command, HMS Seahorse (submarine) 1936 HMS Nelson 1939 RN Staff College 1939 Staff of 6th S/M Flotilla, Home Waters 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph (submarine) (Mediterranean) (DSO and Bar, Order of White Eagle of Yugo­Slavia) 1942 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 22.02.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (Normandy) 27.07.1944 - (10.1944) Staff of 3rd S/M Flotilla, Home Waters [HMS Forth] 1945 - 11.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Forth & Captain (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla 1947 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer S/M's 1948 Admiralty, as Director of Torpedo, Anti­Submarine and Mine Warfare 1951 idc 1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Indomitable 1953 Chief of Staff to Comander-in-Chief Mediterranean as Cdre 1st Class 07.12.1955 - 11.1957 Flag Officer (Submarines) 1958 - 1960 Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic 1960 - 1962 Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and NATO Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic Area 1963 - 1965 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel 1962 - 1965 also: Principal Naval ADC to the Queen Commodore RN Sailing Association, 1963-1966. Member, Committee of Management, RNLI, 1966, Chairman, 1968-1972; President, Sea Cadet Corps Sports Council, 1966; Chairman, Foudroyant Trust, 1967. DL Hants 1971. Knight Commander, Order of King George the First of Greece, 1963.
Woodward, Edwin Hopcraft	05.11.1905 Oxford, Berkshire - 01.1985 Portsmouth, Hampshire	Seaman ? [J100412] A/Gnr. 01.10.1936 Gnr. ?, seniority 01.10.1936 (retd < 07.1948) A/Cd.Gnr. 18.06.1945 A/Lt. ?	(07.1937) - (07.1937) no appointment listed 29.08.1937 - (04.1940 HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) [lent to New Zealand government] 15.11.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Latona (minelayer) (08.1942) no appointment listed 24.11.1942 -