Sgt Stripes Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 Hello. I am researching Gabriel Stanley Woods who served WW2 at Bletchley Park 1939-1942. There is a little bit of information stating that he was a veteran of Admiralty Room 40 WW1 signals intelligence section. Could anyone confirm this or if he was in the Royal Navy. There is no mention of his Rank. Many Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 This Royal Naval Reserve entry is on Findmypast And his Army officer's service file is at National Archives under the following reference: WO 339/117344 Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little bob Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 Looks like Gabriel served as a Lieutenant in the R N V R during the Great War. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 (edited) Exeter College Roll for WW1 notes this: 1903 Woods, G. S., M.A. (1917). Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, attached Admiralty (Intelligence Branch). Edited 17 July , 2019 by charlie962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Stripes Posted 17 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 17 July , 2019 Thank you for both replies. Looks like the start of a very good research project. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 This LG entry (last line) explains his Army appointment which preceded his RNR service: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatio2 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 Just to be clear, he was commissioned into the RNVR as a Lieutenant, not RNR, and was appointed to the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) of the Admiralty. Curiously, despite eighteen months of mobilised RNVR service, his name does not appear on the Admiralty Medal Rolls. He would have qualified for the British War Medal and Victory Medal but these may have been issued by the WO for his earlier Army service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 4 minutes ago, horatio2 said: Just to be clear, he was commissioned into the RNVR as a Lieutenant, not RNR aghh- I keep getting this wrong. Thanks for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 17 July , 2019 Share Posted 17 July , 2019 This 1915 article about his father's Will gives useful family info. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talesofaseadog Posted 26 October , 2019 Share Posted 26 October , 2019 On 17/07/2019 at 14:56, Sgt Stripes said: Hello. I am researching Gabriel Stanley Woods who served WW2 at Bletchley Park 1939-1942. There is a little bit of information stating that he was a veteran of Admiralty Room 40 WW1 signals intelligence section. Could anyone confirm this or if he was in the Royal Navy. There is no mention of his Rank. Many Thanks G S Woods is listed in HW 3/6 in TNA Kew with what looks like Lt behind his name but nothing else. HW 3/6 is entitled Room 40 pen portraits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Stripes Posted 27 October , 2019 Author Share Posted 27 October , 2019 Many Thanks for this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEX Posted 14 November , 2019 Share Posted 14 November , 2019 If it helps, he went from Room 40 to the newly formed GC&CS - Born Oxford 1884. Son of president of Trinity Coll, Oxford. MA Oxon. Room 40 from 1917. Lt RNVR 22 Dec 17. Worked on Spanish, German, Chilean and Austrian ciphers; also on Bolshevist cipher between Budapest and Moscow. Among 'first substitutes' for GCCS. Demobilised Jun 19. On Jul 19 salary list for ID25 (HW3/5) -‐ ¬£350, Lt RNVR. 11 Feb 20, Mr G S Woods replaces Miss Hayllar in GCCS as Junior Assistant. Senior Asst 1930. Appears on Jul 39 mobilisation list (HW3/42). To BP on mobilization (HW64/45). School House on Dec 40 list (HW14/9) In McCormacks report of May 1943 described as 'Bulgarian Section Woods elderly permanent and one secretary. .. .. Woods also handles Yugoslav traffic'. Died 1961. [McCormack was a US Army officer who visited GC&CS in '43] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 14 November , 2019 Share Posted 14 November , 2019 His mother, Margaret Louisa Woods, is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (access possible from home with your library card or at your local library) click. His father has a small Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_Woods. sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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