TALES RECOUNTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 5

TALES RECOUNTED

LATE COMMANDER WORSLEY Rec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The funeral of the late Commander F. A. Worsley, R.N.R., who was born at Akaroa, New Zealand, and became famous as explorer and naval fighter, took place privately at Woking crematorium. His ashes were conveyed to the Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, where a memorial service was held to-day. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, was represented. Many senior officers attended and later formed a guard of honour while the ashes were conveyed to a Royal Naval ship. The vessel cast off and went to the Nore lightship, where the ashes were scattered. Many tales of Captain Worsley are being recounted in English newspapers. The Evening Standards London diarist recalls that Commander Worsley told him how he rammed a U-boat with a Q-ship in the Commander Worsley recounted the story in a grill room with typical gusto, with the result that by the time he had finished the "grill room was rocking in a gale and the waiters were trembling." "'.'.„ ■, _ The diarist added: "Commander Worsley belonged to the sixteenth century, but he managed to get a lot of adventure out of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." tbv sneclal arrangement, Reuters World Service, in addiUonto other speclai sources of Information, £55* iS*the compuatton of the oversea* totemeence published in this issue, and all rl ß"3 s therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved. such of the cable news on this is so hefded has appeared In The Times, and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of The Times unless stated to be so.J