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| Wilson, Aleck Neal MID | ||||||
| Chief Engine Room Artificer | ||||||
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| Wilson, Charles Cornelius (RNR) | ||||||
| Sub Lieutenant | ||||||
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| Wilson, Colin | ||||||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | ||||||
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| Wilson, David Reginald | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
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| Wilson, Edward | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
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| Wilson, Ernest Edward George DSM | ||||||
| Stoker 1st Class | ||||||
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| Wilson, Fred | ||||||
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| Wilson, Frederick George | ||||||
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| Wilson, Harry | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
| The Submarine had been carrying out a Surface Gun Action against a troop carrying caique. When the caique returned fire, the Submarine broke off the action. Whilst clearing the decks for diving a shell hit the base of the Conning Tower and Able Seaman Wilson was wounded and lost over the side. The Gunnery Officer and Petty Officer were also wounded. |
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| Wilson, Henry Ronald | ||||||
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| Wilson, Horace Dent | ||||||
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| Wilson, John | ||||||
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| Wilson, John Robert | ||||||
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| Wilson, Joseph William | ||||||
| Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class | ||||||
| HMAS AE1 | ||||||
| HMAS AE1 was an Australian E Class submarine with Royal Navy Officers and a mixed crew of Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy Ratings AE1 was patrolling in the St George Straits off New Britain on 14 September 1914 when she vanished and was lost with all hands. |
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| Wilson, Leonard James | ||||||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | ||||||
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| Wilson, Leslie Edmund | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
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| Wilson, Percy Lawrence (RAN) | ||||||
| Stoker | ||||||
| HMAS AE1 | ||||||
| HMAS AE1 was an Australian E Class submarine with Royal Navy Officers and a mixed crew of Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy Ratings AE1 was patrolling in the St George Straits off New Britain on 14 September 1914 when she vanished and was lost with all hands. |
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| Wilson, Raymond | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
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| Wilson, Richard Allison | ||||||
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| Wilson, Richard Douglas DSM | ||||||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | ||||||
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| Wilson, Robert | ||||||
| Able Seaman | ||||||
| The son of William and Lena Gladys Wilson of Longbenton, Northumberland. Robert is reported to have died from injuries sustained in a train accident in Fremantle, Western Australia on 3rd November 1944 although full details of the accident are not reported. | ||||||
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| Wilson, Robert Hopkins | ||||||
| Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | ||||||
| At birth Wilson, Robert Hopkins but also served as Bullen, Robert Hopkins | ||||||
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| Wilson, William | ||||||
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
I have often looked for an opportunity of paying tribute to our submariners.
There is no branch of His Majesty's Forces which in this war has suffered the same proportion of total loss as our submarine service.
It is the most dangerous of all services.
That is perhaps the reason why the First Lord tells me that the entry into it is keenly sought by Officers and Men.
I feel sure the House would wish to testify its gratitude and admiration to our Submariners for their Skill - Courage and Devotion which has proved of inestimable value to the sustenance of our country.
Winston Churchill
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We Will Remember Them |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had "really frightened" him during World War Two. The U-Boats certainly claimed a bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, for a total tonnage of over 14 million tonnes, nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war. With justification, then, they are an integral part of the traditional narrative of the Battle of the Atlantic; a story of technological brilliance, dramatic sinkings, life and death, and, of course, the sinister, unseen threat of the U-Boats themselves.
For Allied seamen during the war, the U-Boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves; and the urgent needs of survival afforded them little time or energy to consider the challenges and privations of their enemy. History, however, affords us that time and energy, and any pretence of comprehensiveness demands that we consider what life was like for the crews of those most claustrophobic vessels; packed into a steel hull, at the mercy of the enemy, of the elements, and of basic physics.
Germany’s U-Boat crews posted the highest per-capita losses of any combat arm during World War Two. Some 30,000 German submariners were killed, over 75% of the total number deployed, the vast majority of whom have no grave except the seabed. Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, this book will give the U-Boatmen back their voice, allowing their side of the narrative to be aired in a comprehensive manner for the first time.
With that testimony, Wolfpack takes the reader from the heady early days of the war, when U-Boat crews were buoyed with optimism about their cause, through to the challenges of meeting the Allied counterthreat, to the final horror of defeat, when their submarines were captured by the enemy or scuttled in ignominy. Using the U-Boatmen’s own voices to punctuate an engaging narrative, it tells their story; of courage, certainly, but also of fear, privation and, ultimately, failure.
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had "really frightened" him during World War Two. The U-Boats certainly claimed a bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, for a total tonnage of over 14 million tonnes, nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war. With justification, then, they are an integral part of the traditional narrative of the Battle of the Atlantic; a story of technological brilliance, dramatic sinkings, life and death, and, of course, the sinister, unseen threat of the U-Boats themselves.
For Allied seamen during the war, the U-Boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves; and the urgent needs of survival afforded them little time or energy to consider the challenges and privations of their enemy. History, however, affords us that time and energy, and any pretence of comprehensiveness demands that we consider what life was like for the crews of those most claustrophobic vessels; packed into a steel hull, at the mercy of the enemy, of the elements, and of basic physics.
Germany’s U-Boat crews posted the highest per-capita losses of any combat arm during World War Two. Some 30,000 German submariners were killed, over 75% of the total number deployed, the vast majority of whom have no grave except the seabed. Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, this book will give the U-Boatmen back their voice, allowing their side of the narrative to be aired in a comprehensive manner for the first time.
With that testimony, Wolfpack takes the reader from the heady early days of the war, when U-Boat crews were buoyed with optimism about their cause, through to the challenges of meeting the Allied counterthreat, to the final horror of defeat, when their submarines were captured by the enemy or scuttled in ignominy. Using the U-Boatmen’s own voices to punctuate an engaging narrative, it tells their story; of courage, certainly, but also of fear, privation and, ultimately, failure.
20 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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Thankyou for your support.