In Memory Of

WOOD, JOHN CLAUDE HUDSON

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 1918-03-03
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
Son of Hudson Edward and Pauline Ellen Wood. Born Blantyre, Nyasaland. Educated at Durban High School. Cadet Draft 1934 - 35 (Chief Cadet Captain). On leaving General Botha, John Claude Hudson Wood became apprenticed to the Prince Line and passed for Second Mate in 1939. In 1941 he joined the RNR and was lost in the submarine HMS Utmost which was sunk by the Italian torpedo boat TB Groppo off Marittimo on 25th November 1942. Sub Lieutenant John Claude Hudson Wood RNR RN: Raised in South Africa. Submariner, HMS H32 and HMS N19 Utmost. Ex-Cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha. Commemorated on SATS General Botha WWII Memorial, Cape Town