In Memory Of

WOOD, JOHN CLAUDE HUDSON

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:
 H.M. Submarine Utmost
Regiment:
 Royal Naval Reserve
Date of Death:
 1942-11-25
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 71, Column 1.
Cemetery:
 PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Hampshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Ex-Cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha.