Norman Wodehouse

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Norman Atherton Wodehouse (18 May 1887 - 4 July 1941) was a Royal Navy Vice-Admiral killed in the second World War. He married Theodosia Boyle, daughter of Commander Edward Boyle and Theodosia Ogilvie, on 22 October 1923. He gained 14 caps for England at rugby union, including six as captain between 1910 and 1913.

[edit] Naval History

During World War I, Wodehouse served on the battleship HMS Revenge at the Battle of Jutland, as a gunnery officer. Although several other members of his team were killed in the battle, Wodehouse survived, and went on to secure the position of aide-de-camp to King George VI and as a result was presented with the Companion of the Order of the Bath. Wodehouse was recalled to active service in 1939, at the beginning of World War II. He was killed when the merchant vessel Robert L. Holt was sunk by U-69 on July 4, 1941, after he had ordered the convoy he was commanding on its way to South Africa to scatter due to the attacks by German submarines.

[edit] See also

• List of England rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars

[edit] External links

• Norman Wodehouse at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database

• Commemoration of Rugby players who died in the two World Wars