Raymond WADROP

WADROP, Raymond

Service Number: PA846
Enlisted: 2 September 1939
Last Rank: Able Seaman
Last Unit: HMAS Goorangai
Born: Adelaide, SA, 18 August 1910
Home Town: Fullarton, Unley, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Port Phillip Bay, 20 November 1940, aged 30 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial
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World War 2 Service

2 Sep 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA846, HMAS Goorangai
Date unknown: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA846, HMAS Goorangai

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Olive Wadrop; husband of Beatrice Audrey Wadrop, of Fullarton, South Australia.

Well-Known Swimmer
Able-Seaman Raymond Wadrop, one of the two South Australians' who perished in the Goorangai, was well known as a swimmer in the Port  Adelaide district.
For eight years before joining the R.A.N. Reserve, he competed in events as a member, of the Ethelton Amateur Swimming Club.
Today Cr. Harold Tapping, who was secretary of the S.A. Amateur Swimming Association, said that Wadrop was respected as a man who taught  numerous children and adults swimming and lifesaving. Wadrop coached novice swimmers, and was instrumental in elevating many of them to first- grade ranks, he added. 

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