Frank Henry WADDS

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Service Numbers:	W434, W/434
Enlisted:	13 September 1939
Last Rank:	Petty Officer
Last Unit:	HMAS Goorangai
Born:	Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 9 July 1905
Home Town:	North Williamstown, Hobsons Bay, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Ship Collision, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, W434, HMAS Goorangai

13 Sep 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, W/434, HMAS Goorangai

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Son of William and Maud Wadds; husband of Dorothy Wadds, of North Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.

WADDS - In memory of Petty Officer Frank Henry Wadds, who lost his life by the sinking of H.M.A.S. Goorangai on November 20, 1940.

Oh for a touch of those vanished hands and the sound of the voice that is still.

-Inserted by his loving father and mother, Edna, Ronald (R.A.N.), Jack, and Auntie Flo.

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