WAVELL, William George

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Nubian - Tribal Class Desroyer
Royal Navy

William was born on the 9th of September 1884 in Newport George & Fanny (nee RAILEY) WAVELL of 6 Clifford Street in Newport.

HMS Nubian was torpedoed & damaged, on the 27th of October 1916, with multiple casualties off the coast of Folkestone in the Strait of Dover by German Motor Torpedo Boats of the Flanders Flotilla.

William, aged 32, was one of those killed that & day lost overboard. Therefore, he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to those Lost at Sea together with over 10,000 of his First World War shipmates.

William is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.