Name
Frederick William Nunn
01/03/1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/08/1914
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Cook’s Mate
347626
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Arethusa”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HODDESDON CEMETERY
O. 2. 20.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 1 Mar 1889 and baptised on 26 May 1889 in Hoddesdon son of Frederick William and Ellen Louisa Nunn and lived in 121 Lord Street, Hoddesdon in 1891. He was a baker.
Wartime Service
Joined the Navy in 1907. HMS Arethusa, a cruiser and flotilla leader of the Harwich Force, fought in the Battle of Heligoland Bight when she was seriously damaged by the German cruisers SMS Frauenlob and SMS Stettin and had to be towed home. Frederick Nunn was among 11 officers and men killed in this engagement.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Charles Bertie Nunn who was killed in action on 20 Apr 1916 and who is also commemorated on these memorials.
Fredericks headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FREDERICK WILLIAM NUNN BORN MARCH 1ST 1889
DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AUG 28TH 1914
ON H.M.S. "ARETHUSA"
FREDERICK WILLIAM NUNN BORN MARCH 1ST 1889
DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AUG 28TH 1914
ON H.M.S. "ARETHUSA"
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
