Name
Frederick George Castleman
5 July 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/04/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Stoker
K/3303
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Jason"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 23
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials, Keysoe War Memorial, Beds
Pre War
Frederick George Castleman was born on 5 July 1890 in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, the son of the late Deborah Briars (formerly Castleman), of Baldock, Herts.
On 1891 Census he was being cared for by his aunt and uncle, Peter and Mary Cunnington, and living at Keysoe Row, Bedfordshire. He remained living with them in 1901 at Keysoe, along with his cousins, but had joined the Royal Navy by the time of the 1911 Census and was then recorded as a Stoker on board HMS Dominion.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 22 June 1909 with the Royal Navy to serve for a period of 12 years. He served on several ships as a Stoker, later being promoted to Leading Stoker, serving on HMS Jason from 28 April 1914.
HMS Jason, accompanied by HMS Circe, was minesweeping a channel one and a half miles wide off the east coast of the island of Coll on the west coast of Scotland. The ship hit a German mine at Ari Nagbur at 11.10 am and caught fire. HMS Circe lowered all boats to rescue the crew but HMS Jason sank at 11.15. All five officers and 72 men were saved but 24 men were reported missing.
Frederick's body was not recovered for burial and his name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent.
Additional Information
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, lostinwatersdeep.co.uk
