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Name : Frederick Charles Sheath. Son of Walter William Sheath and Mary Ann Sheath (née King); husband of Ellen Sheath, of 2, St. Albans, Alfred Rd., Lake, Sandown, Isle of Wight. Born 1880 Sandown. (RN Service papers give 10 December 1880 in Ventnor). Married 1905 Ellen Rose, at Christ Church, Sandown. Two children : Leslie Walter (born 1907), Phyllis May (born 1909). |
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Census Information :
1881 : Walter and Mary Ann Sheath, with their children including Frederick aged 4 months, are with his parents at Orchard Cottage, Niton. Walter Sheath is a Gardener (unemployed). 1891 : Walter and Mary Ann Sheath, with their children including Frederick aged 10, are at Macrocarpa Lodge, Newport Road, Ventnor. Walter Sheath is a Gardener (domestic). 1901 : Frederick Sheath (single) aged 20, is an Able Seaman at HMS Excellent, gunnery school, in Portsmouth. 1901 : Walter and Mary Ann Sheath, with two unmarried daughters, are at Macrocarpa Lodge, Newport Road, Ventnor. Walter Sheath is a Gardener (domestic). 1911 : Frederick Sheath (married) aged 30, is a Petty Officer 1st cl. at No 1 Buoy, Shotley, Harwich, Essex. His wife and children are in Portsmouth at this time. 1911 : Walter and Mary Ann Sheath, with four daughters, are at Gardener's Lodge, Newport Road, Ventnor. Walter Sheath is a Gardener (domestic). |
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Service details : Gunner (WO I) 190828 Frederick Charles Sheath, Royal Navy, HMS Bulwark. Frederick Charles Sheath enlisted on 10 December 1898 for a period of 12 years. He gave his trade as Painter, and was 5 ft 8 in tall, with a fresh complexion, brown hair and blue eyes. He had a tattoo on his right arm. He was re-engaged on the 10 December 1910, by which time he was 5 ft 11 in tall, with a fair complexion, light brown hair and brown eyes. He continued to serve into the Great War, dying in the loss of HMS Bulwark cause by an internal explosion which killed nearly all the Officers and crew. |
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| Casualty Details :
Died : 26 November 1914 aged 34 Commemorated at : Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire. CWGC record ... |
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Commemorated on these Memorials :
Ventnor War Memorial Methodist Church, Ventnor, War Memorial County War Memorial, Carisbrooke Castle |
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Documents :
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, November 27, 1914 Page 4 LOCAL LOSS IN H.M.S. BULWARK The loss of Warrant Officer F.C. Sheath in the Bulwark will cause regretted bereavement to a well-known and esteemed Ventnor family. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Sheath of Macrocarpa Lodge, was 34 years of age, married, and had two children. He was a first class Petty Officer on H.M.S. Talbot at Port Arthur when the Russian-Japanese War broke out. He was afterwards torpedo instructor on the Bulldog, and was appointed Warrant Officer on the Bulwark in January of this year. The toll of war is beginning to exact a full measure from Ventnor people. Those who lost their lives in the Bulwark died as truly for their country as any of the hundreds of all nations who are perishing daily. The wisest words are poor things to express the loss in hundreds of homes today, but even to those whom it is most irreparable the thought that the whole country mourns with them may bring a gleam of comfort in the darkness of utter calamity. Friday, December 4, 1914 Page 4 MR. and MRS. W. SHEATH desire to express their sincerest thanks to the many friends who have sent letters of sympathy to them in the bereavement they have been called upon to bear by the death of their youngest son in H.M.S. Bulwark.
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Friday, November 23, 1917 Page 2 IN MEMORIAM SHEATH. - In loving memory of Frederick C. Sheath, Warrant Officer in H.M.S. Bulwark, blown up in Sheerness on Nov. 25th, 1914. - From his loving wife and parents, brothers and sisters.
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Friday, November 22, 1918 Page 2 IN MEMORIAM SHEATH. - In memory of F.C. Sheath, warrant officer on H.M.S. Bulwark, blown up at Sheerness November 25th, 1914. - From his loving wife and parents, brothers and sisters.
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Friday, March 29, 1940 Page 2 DEATH SHEATH. - On March 22nd, at Winstone Farm, Wroxall, Mary Ann, widow of the late W.W. Sheath, formerly of Macrocarpa, Ventnor, aged 88. |
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| Other information : Died in the accidental explosion on H.M.S. Bulwark while moored at Kethole Reach, River Medway. H.M.S. Bulwark Wikipedia article See also Account of HMS Bulwark explosion |
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Acknowledgments :
Janet Griffin for newspaper research |
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