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Officers and Men Killed in Action or Died of Wounds,
 H.M.S. Castor, Battle of Jutland  31st May -1st June 1916.

 Extract from the Official History; " Naval Operations" by Sir Julian S. Corbett. 1923


( Jutland—The Fourth Phase -The Night )
.........and as the courses of the two fleets were now fast converging his advanced guard cruisers came into action almost immediately. What they struck was the destroyer rear guard where the Castor with the 11th Flotilla had taken station on the wing nearest the enemy, with Commodore Hawksley at the head of two divisions and Commander H. E. Sulivan in the Kempenfelt leading the remainder. About half an hour after Admiral Scheer's change of course, the Commodore, peering through the darkness, could make out ships on his starboard bow. What they were it was impossible to tell, and he was making towards them when they showed challenging lights. To add to the doubt as to their identity the first two signals they made were correct for the British challenge of the day, but the other two were wrong. For Commodore Hawksley, however, the uncertainty was soon set at rest. Suddenly the two leading strangers switched on searchlights and at 2,000 yards opened fire. Hitting began at once on both sides. Four times shells got home on the Castor, causing heavy casualties. One set her motor barge on fire, and so fiercely did it blaze that the whole ship became a brilliantly lighted target, and she turned away, but not before she had fired a torpedo. The enemy seemed also to turn away to avoid it, and they now disappeared. Each of the leading destroyers of the Castor's half-flotilla Marne and Magic, had also fired one torpedo, but they were so blinded by the rapid flashes of the Castor's guns that neither could see to fire more, while as for the rest of the destroyers, they were so certain that a mistake was being made, and that the strangers were some of our own ships, that they refrained from firing at all. So in the first hour of darkness the incalculable hazards of a night action were exemplified...........
 


 

Baker, William, Boy 1. Bartram, Leslie, A.B. Broomhead, Alfred, Sto.  
Candy,William Arthur Victor, Ord. Sig. Child, Frederick Thorpe, Sto. P.O. Evans,  Alfred Owen ,Ord. Sig
Flory, Albert Edward, Bugler,  R.M.L.I. Fox,  John Edward Sto. 1. Gasson,  Harry, A.B.
Hallam Fred, Boy 1. Kilhams, Alfred John, Tel. MacGregor, Donald Neil,
  Chief Yeoman of Signals.
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