Frederick Henry Owen

Memorial: Staple Hill - Page Park

Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945

Rank and number: Leading Telegraphist

Parents: Harry Percival and Lilian Constance Owen

Marital status: Married

Home address: Lived: 75 West Park Road, Downend, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Carpenter

Date of birth: 18/10/1907

Date of death: 14/06/1940

Buried/Commemorated at: Died at sea and commemorated on Plymouth Memorial and Staple Hill Memorial

Age: 32

Further information:

Frederick was born in Fulham in London, the eldest child of a letterpress printer. Frederick had a younger sister Adelaide and married Doris May Legg in Downend in 1933.

On the day of his death Frederick was serving aboard the British Steam Minesweeper 'Myrtle', when the vessel was sweeping the Thames estuary. On the 14th June 1940 the crew hoisted a magnetic mine aboard which subsequently exploded killing all 22 of the crew including Frederick and sinking the vessel.

Frederick Henry Owen (not JH as per the memorial).

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?73770