Wallace Widdecombe
Place of birth: Saltash, Cornwall, England
Previous occupation: Cooper
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Chief Cooper
Service Number: 344240
Joined Hood: 7th September 1920 (Chief Cooper)
Left Hood: 8th June 1922 (Chief Cooper)
Biographical Information: No further biographical information is held.
History of ships served in and ratings held:
Date From | Date to | Ship | Rating | Source |
12th June 1901 | 13th February 1905 | Vivid II | Cooper 2nd Class | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
14th February 1905 | 11th June 1905 | Goldfinch | Cooper 2nd Class | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
12th June 1905 | 24th October 1906 | Goldfinch | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
25th October 1906 | 27th November 1906 | Vivid II | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
28th November 1906 | 15th December 1906 | Indus | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
16th December 1906 | 4th November 1907 | Cambridge | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
5th November 1907 | 28th February 1908 | Vivid II | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
29th February 1908 | 29th October 1908 | Indus | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
30th October 1908 | 3rd May 1909 | Vivid II | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
4th May 1909 | 6th December 1911 | Doris | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
7th December 1911 | 3rd February 1914 | Vivid II | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
4th February 1914 | 22nd November 1916 | Orion | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
23rd November 1916 | 14th November 1917 | Vivid II | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
15th November 1917 | 30th September 1918 | Devonshire | Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
1st October 1918 | 21st May 1919 | Devonshire | Cooper 1st Class (NS) | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
22nd May 1919 | 30th June 1919 | Vivid II | Cooper 1st Class (NS) | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
1st July 1919 | 22nd July 1919 | Vivid III | Cooper 1st Class (NS) | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
23rd July 1919 | 2nd February 1920 | Apollo | Cooper 1st Class (NS) | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
3rd February 1920 | 31st March 1920 | Woolwich | Cooper 1st Class (NS) | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
1st April 1920 | 10th August 1920 | Woolwich | Chief Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
11th August 1920 | 6th September 1920 | Vivid III | Chief Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
7th September 1920 | 8th June 1922 | Hood | Chief Cooper | ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea |
Additional Photographs
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Memorials
No known memorials
No known memorials
Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
ADM188/521 via WW1 Lives at Sea