Name
John Bassett Odam
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/04/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Assistant Paymaster
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Russell”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
15.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Cuthbert’s Church Rye Park
Pre War
Born in 1892 in Wandsworth, London son of Edwin Keates Odam (Engr. Comdr. R.N.).and Mrs Rose Hannah (Fowtrell) Odam and was living in 1 Rose Villas, Gladys Avenue, Portsmouth in 1901 where his father was a Staff Engineer. He later lived in Rye House, Hoddesdon.
Wartime Service
He was already in the Navy in 1911. He was killed when HMS Russell, a Duncan class battleship, hit two mines that had been laid by German submarine U-73 off Malta. A total of 125 men were lost out of a complement of 720. The Herts Mercury dated 17th June 1916 reported that the ship was torpedoed.
Additional Information
Brother of Assistant Paymaster Edwin Keates Odam RN who was killed in action on 31 May 1916 and who is also commemorated on this memorial.
John is commemorated, along with his brother Edwin, on the family plot in Hoddesdon Cemetery
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
