Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of George Norledge, a quarry worker, born 1853 in Preston on Stour, Gloucestershire and his wife Jane Norledge, born 8th June 1852 in Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire. Frederick George was born in the 2nd quarter of 1894 in Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire his siblings were, Annie Elizabeth, born 1879 in Hugglescote, Leicestershire, John Henry, born 6th May 1881, Arthur Thomas, born 20th December 1884, Minnie Jane, born 7th January 1887 and Elsie Mary (Ella), born 27th September 1891, the latter four siblings were all born in Stoney Stanton, in March 1901 the family home was at Croft, Leicestershire. In April 1911 Frederick was employed as a concrete worker and was residing in the family home at Croft, together with his father, a quarry worker, his mother and sister, Elsie, a Griswold framework knitter. In the 2nd quarter of 1916 in the Leicester district, Frederick married Emily Elizabeth Driver, Emily was born in 1894 in Enderby. In the 4th quarter of 1920 in the Blaby, Leicestershire district, Frederick’s widow married Cecil Bailey, they resided at Mill Hill, Enderby, Frederick’s parents latterly resided at 62, Waring Street, Leicester. In 1939 Frederick’s widowed mother, now incapacitated was residing at 980, St. Albans Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, this being the family home of his married sister Elsie (Ella) Vigars and her husband, Francis, a railway gardener, born 24th December 1892. Frederick was awarded the British War and Victory medals.
The background information, and circumstances relating to how Frederick lost his life are as follows; The SS Cameronia was torpedoed on 15th April 1917 by the German U-Boat, U-33 while en route from Marseille, France to Alexandria, Egypt. She was serving as a troopship at the time and carrying reinforcements for Mesopotamia, which numbered approximately 2,650 soldiers. The ship sank in 40 minutes, 150 miles east of Malta; taking 210 lives. Other sources report only 140 casualties. Most of the crew and embarked soldiers were picked up by the escorting destroyers HMS Nemesis and HMS Rifleman. The remainder of the survivors had sufficient time to take to lifeboats. As the U-boat was in the area, the remaining survivors had to be picked up the next morning by a sloop from Malta.