Able Seaman D/JX 368447 Frederick William Stanway

BMD details:
Birth of Frederick W Stanway son of Frederick & Sarah Stanway nee Yates reg Q1 1923 Prescot. Vol 8b page 1492

Family details:
Son of Sarah Stanway, of Parr, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately Frederick W and two other members of the household are redacted. Widowed mother Sarah Stanway born 28/02/1893 an Unpaid Domestic, brother Donald Stanway born 22/01/1919 a Glass Bottle Emptier U.G.B and brother Frank Stanway born 15/01/1925 a Slack Wheeler Brickworks are living at 18 Bramwell Street, Parr, St Helens.

Notes:
[note=172]Two Stanway Brothers who died in World War Two[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=14]Remembered On Parr St Peters War Memorial.[/url] [note=14]Remembered on Parr Central Memorial[/note]

[center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/HMS_STRATAGEM_badge_zps2de2e326.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]H.M.S. [i]Stratagem Badge[/i][/caption] [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/HMS_Stratagem1_zps55c5369f.jpg[/pic][caption]H.M.S. [i]Stratagem[/i][/caption] [b]HMS [i]Stratagem[/i][/b] was an S-Class Submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on 21 June 1943. So far she has been the only ship to bear the name [i]Stratagem.[/i] [i]Stratagem[/i] left Trincomalee on 10 November 1944 to patrol in the vicinity of Malacca where it was believed the Japanese were loading ships with bauxite ore. On 19 November she attacked and sank the tanker [i]Nichinan Maru[/i], but on 22 November she was spotted by a Japanese aircraft. She attempted to dive and escape but the aircraft directed the sub-chaser [i]CH 35[/i] to where it had dived. [i]CH 35[/i] launched depth charges, the first of which caused the submarines bow to strike the bottom. The submarine was plunged into darkness and the forward part began to flood. Attempts to shut the watertight door to the forward compartment failed and the crew were forced to abandon the ship. Ten of her crew were taken prisoner, of whom only three survived captivity. [pic]imgs/WW2_misc/Stanway_DJX%20368447.jpg[/pic][caption]Courtesy Jeff Keenan[/caption] [center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Stanway_zps88696f5f.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The panel on the Plymouth Naval Memorial bearingthe name of Abel Seaman Frederick William Stanway[/caption]