Bernard George Wooster

1900 - 1968  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Bernard George Wooster
  Birth	Bet. Jul-Sep 1900	Gravesend, Kent   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Oct 1968	Leith, Scotland   [3]
  Person ID	I191924	Great Wooster Tree
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Ernest Richard Wooster,   b. Abt 1865, Portsmouth, Hampshire d. 21 Dec 1934, Maidstone, Kent (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Ada Sarah Morgan,   b. Abt 1870, Portsmouth, Hampshire d. 5 Jan 1935, Maidstone, Kent (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	Between Jan and Mar 1888	Portsea, Hampshire   [4]
  Family ID	F205834	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Bet. Jul-Sep 1900 - Gravesend, Kent Death - 7 Oct 1968 - Leith, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Another Bernard George Wooster located on the John Knight Wooster tree and born in Hillingdon in 1908 was initially confused with this one. However, we now have irrefutable evidence (The Hillingdon man was named as a Lieutenant Commander in his brother's obituary) that this one born in Gravesend is NOT the one awarded the DSC in 1944. This is also backed up by information submitted by the Gravesend man's grandniece, Teresa Smith: The Bernard George who was born in 1900 in Gravesend was my great uncle, his older sister Gertrude was my grandmother. We often talked about the family tree and she never said that he was mentioned in despatches. As far as I know, and his obituary in the Customs Service magazine bears this out, he stayed in Scotland (the family were in Leith from about 1918) after his father Ernest, also in the Customs, moved on, finally ending up in Kent. No mention of naval service. The obituary says that Bernard was at Granton from 1926 until 1946 when he returned to Leith until he retired. His record in the Customs wasn't particularly distinguished and he failed to get promotion. I don't think he would be the Bernard George who's service record is on the website. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S00044] Free BMD (Reliability: 3). [S00124] 1901 Census (Reliability: 3). [S22] Teresa Smith (Reliability: 3). [S00044] Free BMD, Marriages Mar 1888, Portsea, 2b, 724.