-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Crew List

It is estimated that as many as 18,000 men served aboard the 'Mighty Hood' during the operational portion of her 21 year career. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. Here you will find our attempt at creating such a listing. We are using the few, fragmentary crew lists known to exist, Navy Lists, various official reports, public records, and most importantly of all, inputs from the families of former crew.

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Oswald Cecil Wiltshire

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Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Able Seaman













Biographical Information: No information is held about Oswald Wiltshire's naval career, except that he served in HMS Hood around 1936-8, and that he was a very talented sportsman, competing for the ship in football, athletics and boxing - he was the ship's boxing champion. He won so many sports trophies that (his family recalls) his shipmates made a cabinet for them which he took with him on leaving Hood.

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None at this time.


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)