Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panels 33-95

Panel 33-42 inclusive.

 

Panels 43-52

 

Panel 53-58

 

Panel 59- Close up pictures

 

Panels 60-69

 

Panels 70-79

 

Panels 80-89

 

Panels 90-93

 

Panels 94-95

 

Thankyou. My great Uncle Arthur is in Panel 72.......

 

ABE,

You dont happen to have any Panels from WW1 do you ??

Initially after Panel 20.

Regards,

Graeme

 

Graeme
I do indeed (somewhere)- drop me a PM with who you need and I will dig them out and try and get them to you soonest

Andy

 

Morning Andy,

many thanks, will do,

Regards,

Graeme

 

Some help from the wise required here:

I am researching a 10sq RAAF Short Sunderland crash near Plymouth where the crew of 10 survived and the five passengers were killed.
This "Captain" is said to be on the panel 61, Row 3 and I am unable to find it.

I was under the impression that all of the bodies were recovered however this may not be the case.


Passengers :

Royal Army Brigadier Frank William Vogel (OBE) (Killed)

Royal Navy Captain Geoffrey Wyndham Wadham (Killed)

Royal Navy Captain Frederick Thornton Peters (V C, D S O, D S C and Bar) (Killed) Info of Christian names added by me as he was the only "Peters" to die on that date in the UK.

Royal Navy Commander Rupert Richard Devlin (Killed)

RAF 906587 Sgt Ryall Edward Cordrey (Air Gunner) (Killed)


Brigadier Vogel is buried in the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK.

Captain Wadham is "buried" ?? in the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UK.

Captain Peters ??

Commander Devlin is buried in the Plymouth (Weston Hill) Cemetery, UK.

Sgt Cordrey was cremated at the Camberwell (Honor Oak) Crematorium. UK.


The details are as follows from the CWGC:

Captain PETERS, FREDERICK THORNTON
Died 13/11/1942

Aged 53

H.M.S. Excellent
Royal Navy

V C, D S O, D S C and Bar


Distinguished Service Cross (U.S.A.). Son of Frederick and Bertha Hamilton Peters, of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.


Citation

The citation in the London Gazette of 14th May, 1943, reads

For valour in taking H.M.S. Walney, in an enterprise of desperate hazard, into the harbour of Oran on 8th November, 1942. Captain Peters led his force through the boom towards the jetty in the face of point-blank fire from the shore batteries, a destroyer and a cruiser. Blinded in one eye, he alone of the seventeen officers and men on the bridge survived. The Walney reached the jetty disabled and ablaze, and went down with her colours flying.

Download commemorative certificate (PDF)

Commemorated at PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Location: Hampshire, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 24664

Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 61, Column 3.

 

Capt Frederick Thornton Peters

Birth

17 Sep 1889 Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Death

13 Nov 1942 At Sea

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/VCFrederickThorntonPetersGrave.jpg
CaptainPETERS, FREDERICK THORNTON
Died 13/11/1942

Aged 53

H.M.S. Excellent
Royal Navy

V C, D S O, D S C and Bar

Distinguished Service Cross (U.S.A.). Son of Frederick and Bertha Hamilton Peters, of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Captain Peters was killed in an air crash three days after his release on 13 November 1942. He was coming back to Britain in a Sunderland seaplane which crash landed in Plymouth Sound in thick fog, at the entrance to the Royal Navy's Devonport Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon. In spite of efforts by the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Wynton Thorpe RAAF, who held on to him for ninety minutes in the water, he was dead when the rescue launch reached them. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, (Panel 61. Column 3) Hampshire, England


Captain WADHAM, GEOFFREY WYNDHAM
Died 13/11/1942

Aged 50

H.M.S. St. Angelo
Royal Navy

Son of Frank Jesser Wadham and Bertha Wadham; husband of Bertha Grace Wadham, of Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

 

UK, Victoria Cross Medals, 1857-2007
Name: Frederick Thornton Peters
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1889
Birth Place: Chalottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Death Date: 13 Nov 1942
Death Place: Sunderland Flying Boat, Near Plymouth Harbour, Breakwater


TD

 

Thanks Clive and Tricky.

I could find the memorial (61) however the numbers must be incorrect.

Just had to make sure as the dates and everything else matched.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Wadham

RN Casualties in WW2 by Name - Wa
WADHAM, Geoffrey W, Captain, St Angelo, 13 November 1942, passenger in RAF 79 Sqn aircraft, killed

13th Nov 1942
Royal Air Force, 79 Sqn, aircraft crash, passengers in transport aircraft
DEVLIN, Rupert R, Commander, Rtd, (Vernon), MPK
PETERS, Frederick T, Act/Captain, (Excellent, ex-Walney), MPK, awarded Victoria Cross
WADHAM, Geoffrey W, Captain, (St Angelo), killed
Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, November 1942

TD

 

UK, Memorial Books WWI and WWII, 1914-1945
Name: Rupert Richard Devlin
Birth Date: 30 Oct 1889
Death Date: 13 Nov 1942
Military Year Range: December 1949
Title: Croydon and the Second World War


If he was recalled back to the RN (as stated above) why would he have a mention in the Croydon Memorial book and as below a civil death registration
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Rupert R Devlin
Death Age: 53
Birth Date: abt 1889
Registration Date: Dec 1942
Registration district: Plymouth
Inferred County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 380

and on the memorial he is stated a Commander
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Commander Rupert Richard Devlin
Death Date: 13 Nov 1942
Cemetery: Weston Mill Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon, England
Has Bio?: N
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...

Should he not be mentioned on the memorial plaque as in CL1's post no 16 ????????

TD