WADDS, Frank Henry
Service Numbers: | W434, W/434 |
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Enlisted: | 13 September 1939 |
Last Rank: | Petty Officer |
Last Unit: | HMAS Goorangai |
Born: | Williamstown, Vic., 9 July 1905 |
Home Town: | North Williamstown, Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940, aged 35 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, W434, HMAS Goorangai |
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World War 1 Service
13 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, W/434, HMAS Goorangai |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William and Maud Wadds; husband of Dorothy Wadds, of North Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.
WADDS - In memory of Petty Officer Frank Henry Wadds, who lost his life by the sinking of H.M.A.S. Goorangai on November 20, 1940.
Oh for a touch of those vanished hands and the sound of the voice that is still.
-Inserted by his loving father and mother, Edna, Ronald (R.A.N.), Jack, and Auntie Flo.