Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods
| Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 February 1906 Southsea, Portsmouth |
| Died | 1 January 1975 (aged 68) Burley, Hampshire |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1919–1965 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands held |
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (1963–65) Home Fleet (1960–63) Flag Officer Submarines (1955–57) HMS Indomitable (1952–53) 3rd Submarine Flotilla (1945–46) HMS Forth (1945–46) HMS Centurion (1944) HMS Triumph (1940–41) HMS Seahorse (1935–36) |
| Battles/wars | Second World War |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order & Bar Order of the White Eagle (Yugoslavia) Grand Commander of the Royal Order of George I (Greece) |
| Other work | Commodore RN Sailing Association (1963–66) Chairman, RNLI (1968–72) President, Sea Cadet Corps Sports Council (1966) Chairman, Foudroyant Trust (1967) Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire |
Admiral Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, DL (9 February 1906 – 1 January 1975) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Submarine Service in the Mediterranean.
Woods was born at Genoa Villa, Southsea, Hampshire, the only child of Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods (1876–1947), a colonial civil servant, and his wife, Ethel Maud, née Palmer (c.1875–1942). Woods was educated at Seabrook Lodge Preparatory School at Hythe, Kent, before attending the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth from 1919 to 1923. On 27 January 1930, he married Murray Auriol Ruth Inglis (1907/8–1956), daughter of Charles Stuart Inglis, a retired Royal Navy paymaster. They had one son (who predeceased them) and a daughter. He was widowed in 1956 and, in 1957, he married Joan Bridget Constance Eden, an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
In 1927, he joined the Submarine Service and served on HMS L19 on the China Station.
Woods' first command was the modern submarine HMS Seahorse in 1935. At the outbreak of World War II, he was Staff Operations Officer for the 6th Submarine Flotilla at Blyth, Northumberland, before taking his second submarine command, HMS Triumph, to the 1st Flotilla in the Mediterranean, arriving at Alexandria, Egypt in December 1940. Woods' time there saw him savaging Axis supply vessels and warships, including damage to the Italian cruiser Bolzano, as well as landing or recovering military personnel and agents off enemy-occupied shores. In June 1941, he was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for engaging the Salpa in a gun duel and then sinking her with a torpedo.
...
Wikipedia