ASHTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Capt. The Rev., Chaplain to the Forces, attd. Royal Air Force, elder s. of the late William Henry Ashton, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of (-) Beabey; b. Sheepwash, co. Devon, 4 May, 1885; educ. Plymouth Public School; Wood-brook Settlement, and Victoria College, Manchester; was ordained Minister, United Methodist Church, in 1910; volunteered for active service, and gazetted Chaplain to the Forces 1 Nov. 1918, and died at the Base Hospital, Sheffield, on the 18th of that month, from influenza, contracted while on service. Buried in the General Cemetery there; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5