NAVAL HONOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2

NAVAL HONOURS

PAID TO LATE COMMANDER F.A.WORSLEY ASHES SCATTERED OFF NORE. AFTER LIFE OF GALLANT ADVENTURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON February 4. The funeral of Commander S'. A. Worsley, R.N.R., the famous explorer, who was born in Akaroa, took place privately at Woking crematorium on February 3. His ashes were conveyed to the Royal Naval College Chapel at Greenwich, where a memorial service was held today, at which Mr. Jordan was represented. The chaplain recounted Commander Worsley’s adventurous life from the time he left New Zealand. The chapel was packed by senior officers and W.R.N.S., who later formed a guard of honour while the ashes were conveyed to a Royal naval ship. It later cast off and went to the Nore Lightship, in the vicinity of which the ashes were scattered.

Mrs. Worsley attended the chapel service. Many tales of Commander Worsley. are recounted in English newspapers. The “Evening Standard’s” London diarist recalls that Commander Worsley told him how. he rammed a U-boat with a Q-ship. The diarist added: ‘Worsley belonged to the sixteenth century, but he managed to get a lot' of ( adventure from the nineteenth ' and twentieth.”