WOODMORE, Geoffrey

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Southsea - Minesweeper
Royal Navy

Geoffrey was born on the 30th of January 1919 in Newport to Walter Charles & Hilda Mary (nee KIRBY) WOODMORE who were living at 18 Hillside Terrace in Newport around the time of Geoffrey’s death.

Geoffrey was aboard HMS Southsea, a former Southern Railways IW paddle steamer on service as a minesweeper which hit a mine on the 16th of February 1941, killing seven of her crew. The ship was beached & abandoned between Herd Point & South Shields Pier in North East England. Her remains can still be seen at low tide.

Geoffrey, aged 22, 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 nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Geoffrey 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.