Name
Frederick George Chastell
15/08/1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235228
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 22.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Cheshunt, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Frederick George Chastell was born in Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, on 15th August 1893, son of Thomas Chastell a, Gardener and Sarah Emma Chastell, (nee Gamblin). One of eleven children.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 7, living with his parents and five siblings at, 4 Stanley Road, Wokingham, Berkshire. In 1910 the family moved to Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.
1911 Census records Frederick aged 17, employed as a Gardener, living with his parents and seven siblings at, 3 Eveline Cottages, Flampstead End, Cheshunt, Herts. Brother Harold John Chastell was born later that year.
Wartime Service
On 19th October 1915, Frederick travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist for 4 years with the Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Force, and given the service number 5631. (He later volunteered to serve overseas, as Territorials did not have to serve overseas).
He embarked at Folkstone, Kent, on 5th July 1916, for Boulogne, France, arriving the same day. He was transferred and posted to the 17th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 2nd July 1917, with the new service number 235228. Seeing action on the Western Front. He was reported missing in action between 31st July and 5th August 1917, presumed killed in Action on 31st July 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres (31st July to 10th November 1917). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Sarah Chastell received a dependent pension of 14/4 a week for life, for the loss of two sons, Frederick and Hubert. His effects of £2-00s-9d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £8, went to his father Thomas Chastell. His younger brother Private/Lance Corporal (depending on the document) G/29630 Hubert William Chastell of “The Queens” (Royal West Surrey Regiment) died on 15th July 1918 of wounds received in action.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
