-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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William Amos George

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Date of birth: 9th October 1901
Place of birth: Eastcote, Northamptonshire, England
Previous occupation: T.S Warspite
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Leading Telegraphist
Service Number: J66120
Joined Hood: 12th May 1931 (Leading Telegraphist)
Left Hood: 22nd April 1932 (Leading Telegraphist)







Biographical Information: William Amos George joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class at the age of just fifteen years four months, having already been a cadet in Training Ship (TS) Warspite. His initial Royal Navy training was in HMS Powerful, an obsolete cruiser converted to a training ship. After one year he was selected for the Telegraphist specialisation, a discipline which required above-average intellect.

William joined HMS Hood in May 1931, as the ship emerged from her major mid-life refit. By this time, he was a Leading Telegraphist. He would have been on board four months later, when some Hood personnel participated in the Invergordon Mutiny. William's role in this, if any, is not known. He served in Hood for just under one year.

The photo of William, top left, shows him some time not long after his Hood time, wearing the uniform of a Petty Officer - he was advanced to this senior rate in 1935. Later, in 1939, he was selected for promotion to Chief Petty Officer. As was normal, he qualified for a pension on his fortieth birthday and would normally have left the Service at that time. His service documents indicate, however, that he continued to serve ashore, in the New Entry Training Establishment, HMS Ganges, and that he finally left the Service on the day before his forty-fourth birthday, 8 October 1945, just after the end of World War II.

William Amos George died in Portchester, near Portsmouth, on 13th March 1961, at the age of just 59.


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Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
Service Record: ADM/363/387(Ancestry)
Mr Mark Reid, photo and biographical information May 2023.