Name
Claude Cecil Castello
17/12/1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
20 Yrs.
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private/Signaller
G/6343
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
"D" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 46 and 47
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Poziers Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross
Pre War
Claude Cecil Castello was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire,
on 17th December 1897, son of William John Castello, employed by the
Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield and Sarah Elizabeth Castello (nee Cooke). One
of eleven children although two died in infancy.
Baptised in Waltham Cross, on 23rd January 1898.
At the time the family were living in Kings Road, Waltham Cross.
1901 Census records Claude aged 3, living with his parents,
and six siblings at, 6 High Street, Waltham Cross.
1911 Census records Claude aged 13, at school, living with
his parents and six siblings at, 72 Eleanor Road, Waltham Cross.
Wartime Service
Claude enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Army
Cycling Corps, with the service number 10255, transferred to the 12th
Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment with the service number G/6343, later transferred
to the 11th Battalion, with the service number SD/3946, (Battalion
and service numbers taken from his medal card). Seeing action on the Western
Front, he died on 22nd March 1918, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
His effects of £7-3s-2d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £10-10s-00d, went to his mother Sarah Castello.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
