WADROP, Raymond
| Service Number: | PA846 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 September 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Goorangai |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 18 August 1910 |
| Home Town: | Fullarton, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Ship Collision, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA846, HMAS Goorangai | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA846, HMAS Goorangai |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Olive Wadrop; husband of Beatrice Audrey Wadrop, of Fullarton, South Australia.
Well-Known Swimmer
Able-Seaman Raymond Wadrop, one of the two South Australians' who perished in the Goorangai, was well known as a swimmer in the Port Adelaide district.
For eight years before joining the R.A.N. Reserve, he competed in events as a member, of the Ethelton Amateur Swimming Club.
Today Cr. Harold Tapping, who was secretary of the S.A. Amateur Swimming Association, said that Wadrop was respected as a man who taught numerous children and adults swimming and lifesaving. Wadrop coached novice swimmers, and was instrumental in elevating many of them to first- grade ranks, he added.
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