William George Wooster
Birth: 12 December 1866, Coleshill, Hertfordshire
Death: June 1940, Wellington, Shropshire
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Service Record:
Rank: Cook, Royal Navy
Service no. 356359
Ship Served on: HMS Boscawen. This appeared to be a training ship at Portland and was probably HMS Trafalgar, which was renamed HMS Boscawen in 1873.
First Service Date: 2 March 1898
Last Service Date: 9 September 1898
So far there is no explanation for why William joined the Navy as a cook in Portland for only about 6 months
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Ancestry