Captain John Cyril DEED

Captain John Cyril Deed{gallery}Capt J C Deed{/gallery}Royal Marine Light Infantry, aboard HMS Formidable
Killed in action in the English Channel, 1st January 1915, aged 38

• Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent. Panel 13
  
• Awarded: Not yet established
• Son of the Rev Canon John George and Elizabeth Deed of Nuneaton Vicarage
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Captain Deed
• Chatham Naval Memorial
• Royal Marine Light Infantry

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 22 May 1876 at St Albans, Herts
• Educated at St Alban’s Grammar School and Greenwich College
• Gazetted 2nd Lt 1 Feb 1894
• Promoted to Lt 1 Jan 1895
• Promoted to Capt 10 Oct 1900
• Served on HMS Alexandra, and various Australian ships and bases then in the Mediterranean
• Retired in 1905 and moved to British Columbia, Canada where he raised the 1st East Kootenay Contingent at the outbreak of war
• Ordered to return to England and joined HMS Formidable on 16 Nov 1914
  
• Killed on 1 Jan 1915 when HMS Formidable was torpedoed in the English Channel