Service Details
Name:
 WOOD
Given Name:
 JOHN CLAUDE HUDSON
Initials:
 J C H
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Reserve
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Unit:
 H.M. Submarine Utmost
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Date of Death:
 1942-11-25
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, left Malta for a patrol in the Mediterranean in November 1942. On the 23rd she sank an enemy ship, but on 25 November 1942, during her return journey to Malta, she was located, attacked and sunk south west off Sicily by depth charges from the Italian torpedo boat Groppo
Additional
Information:
Ex-Cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Hampshire
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Cemetery:
 PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 71, Column 1.

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