Trotter A N Lt 1st Royal Scots

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Trotter A N Lt Royal Scots

Source : The Illustrated London News 14th Nov 1914

Trotter A N Lt 1st Royal Scots

TROTTER, ALEXANDER NIGEL, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), only s. of Alexander Pelham Trotter, of 181, Ashley Gardens, London, S. W., Electrical Adviser to the Board of Trade, by his wife, Alys Fane, dau. of Maurice Keatinge, and a nephew of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Trotter, K.C.M.G., C.B.; b. Cottesmore Gardens, London, W., 17 Sept. 1894; educ. Packwood Haugh, and Clifton College, where he was a member of the O.T.C., shot in the Bisley VIII, and was one of the best boxers in the school; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Scots, 21 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1914; acted as Transport Officer for the 3rd Battn. on the out- break of war; left for France in charge of a draft of 100 men for the 2nd Battn., 30 Aug. 1914; the Royal Scots left the trenches at the Aisne about 26 Sept. and arrived in position near Bethune 11 Oct., and Lieut. Trotter was killed in action at La Fosse, near Vieille Chapelle, 12 Oct. 1914, while engaged in attacking a wood strongly held by the enemy.

The ground over which the British had to advance was intersected by small irrigation canals crossed by plank bridges, on which the officers and men offered a good target. Lieut. Trotter is believed to have been first hit while crossing one of these bridges, and after advancing three-quarters of a mile fell with two more wounds. He was buried on the farm of Zelobes, near La Fosse, north of Bethune; unm.

His Coy. Commander, Capt. (now Major) F. C. Tanner, D.S.O., wrote: “Everyone is unanimous that Nigel died like a hero, and knowing him I could not suppose it otherwise. I saw him under fire at the beginning of the action”; and a man in his company: “I can assure you all the men were sorry to lose him, for he seemed to have no fear and was a good leader of men.” On the cross put up on his grave by the mobile column of Alexander N. Trotter. the Red Cross, some of his comrades wrote: “A very gallant gentleman.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Trotman S Pte 3155 2/3rd London Regiment

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Trotman S Pte 3155 2/3rd London Regiment

TROTMAN, SYDNEY, Private, No. 3155, 2/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late George Hayman Trotman, of Brooklands Lodge, Cambridge, by his wife, Agnes (35, Norwich Street, Cambridge), dau. of Edward Godfrey; b. Cambridge, 18 April, 1886; educ. St. Paul’s School, Cambridge; was a Clerk; joined 2/3rd Royal Fusiliers, 8 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, in April, and died of heatstroke at Khartoum, 3 June, 1915; unm.

Buried at Khartoum. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was buried with all military honours and the Sirdar (Sir Reginald Wingate) has written asking me to express his sympathy to his relatives and the men of his company”; and another officer: “Your son was a good man and soldier, and will be deeply missed by officers and men alike.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Trineman C F Staff Sergt 62 18th Australian Imperial Force

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Trineman C F Staff Sergt 62 18th Australian Imperial Force

TRINEMAN, CHARLES FREDERICK, Staff Sergt., No. 62, 18th Battn. 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late William Trineman, Gardener; b. Exeter, 28 March, 1882; educ. Seaton Council School; joined the 27th Devonshire Yeomanry, and served with them through the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); afterwards went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21-25 Aug. 1915. He had, just previous to his death, given a cooking demonstration at Victoria Barracks, on one of the Travelling Kitchens to be used by the troops, and was then presented with a gold wristlet watch. For many years he was golf professional and groundsman at the Axe Cliff Golf Links. He m. at Seaton, Devon, 28 Jan. 1903, Amelia (Southfield, New Road, Water Orton, near Birmingham), dau. of John Harley Boddy, and had a dau.: Nora Amelia, b. 13 March, 1904.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Trimmer W D M Lt 1st Hampshire Regiment

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Trimmer W D M Lt Hampshire Regiment

Source : The Sphere 5th Dec 1914

Trimmer W D M Lt 1st Hampshire Regiment

TRIMMER, WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACLEAN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only child of Edward Douglas Trimmer, of Oakrigg, Walton-on-Thames, Solicitor, and his wife, Mary Kate, dau. of John Lauchlan Maclean, late of Haremere Hall, co. Sussex; b. Surbiton, co. Surrey, 29 Dec. 1891; educ. Aldenham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires, 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, in the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action with his whole platoon, in an advanced and isolated trench at Ploegsteert Wood, during the First Battle of Ypres, 30 Oct. following. Buried in Ploegsteert Churchyard; unm.

Lieut. J. F. Gwynne, Medical Officer to the Hampshires, wrote: “He died like a hero-he was a hero, and the way he and his men fought to the last is one of the finest acts I have heard of in the whole war. He was found in his trench, wounded fatally in the head, grasping unexpended cartridges in his hand-game to the last. He must have died immediately on receiving the fatal shot.” Capt. Clive Garsia, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “The simplest truth about him, uninfluenced by the natural wish to speak well of the dead, is that he was one of the very best subalterns I ever knew. From the day he joined he devoted himself whole-heartedly to work and to play, and exhibited pluck and endurance I have never seen excelled. His success as a cross-country runner was due solely to grit, because he was not the cut of a runner, but he had the heart to stay the pace however hot they made it. As a loyal subordnate who played up to me whole-heartedly on every occasion I should like to pay his memory humble tribute of acknowledgment. I knew when the war broke out that he would do well, and I have frequently asked men coming down wounded for news about the regt. and different officers. The first news I heard was about the retreat from Mons, when a sergt. told me that Mr. Trimmer and the General were the only two that wouldn’t lie down. Several told me that the blokes said they’d follow him anywhere'”; and in a subsequent letter he added “the specially heroic circumstances attending the last stand of Douglas and his platoon are fully appreciated. I am now on the Divisional staff and have frequently heard the Chief Staff Officer say how well my regt. has done all through, instancing the way Douglas’ platoon stuck it to the last man.’ And Capt. Douglas Johnston, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “On the Aisne he [Lieut. Trimmer] did his work perfectly, and I myself was particularly struck with the quiet courage he showed when on really dangerous patrol work. He was far from well there, but got better before we moved. When poor Major Connellan was struck, your boy dashed out and brought him into cover, and the next day, the 21 Oct., he told me about it. It is unnecessary for me to add that he was extraordinarily popular with his men.” Mr. Connellan in a letter to Mr. Trimmer said: “I have heard from Capt. Thurn and I will tell you all that he told me about your son, but I am afraid it is very little. He says, about 28 Oct. he was holding an advanced trench with his platoon in front of Ploegsteert Wood; he was very heavily shelled and attacked by infantry all day, losing most of his platoon. He sent back for reinforcements but apparently there were none to be had, anyhow none were sent. He held his men together and stuck to his trench all day, being finally killed by a shell towards the evening. The remains of his platoon, nine men out of about 40, stuck on and were finally all killed by German infantry, except, I believe, one man who is now wounded and prisoner. The only survivor of his platoon, the messenger he sent back, was killed about two months after. Young Trimmer certainly held his trench very gallantly and I know his name was sent on from the battn.”

He was a good all-round athlete. When at Aldenham he won the School Mile and Half Mile, in 1910, creating school records in both instances. He was also a good cross-country runner, coming in fourth at the R.M.C. in 1911, and he ran in the 1st Hampshire Regimental Teams in 1912, 1913 and 1914, which won the Aldershot Command (twice) and the Eastern Command, Cross Country Runs. In other sports he was a useful Rugby Football and Hockey player, a plucky swimmer and a good horseman.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Trimmer W D M Lt Hampshire Regiment

Source : The Illustrated London News 21st Nov 1914

Trimmer G F Coy Sergt Major 3359 2/4th Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment

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Trimmer G F Coy Sergt Major 3359 2/4th Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment

TRIMMER, GILBERT FREDERICK, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 3359, 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s, Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Trimmer, of Guildford, by his wife, Alice Katurah, dau. of J. Dawes Esher; b. Guildford, co. Surrey, 18 April, 1876; was by trade a Tailor; served in South Africa, 1900, with the City Imperial Volunteers and was invalided, home; after the outbreak of the European War enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s, Guildford, 10 Feb. 1902, Grace Eleanor (38, King John Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of the late George Hewett, of Guildford; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Trevor H S Lt Royal Engineers

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Trevor H S Lt Royal Engineers

Source : The Sphere 18th Sep 1915

Trevor H S Lt Royal Engineers

TREVOR, HARRY SPOTTISWOODE, Lieut., Royal Engineers, s. of Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, K.C.S.I., late of the Indian C.S., Revenue Member of the Bombay Government (1892-95) and Public Works Member of the Government of India (1896-1901), by his wife, Florence Mary, 2nd dau. of Col. Cyril Jackson Prescott, Bombay S.C., and grandson of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (who was murdered at Kabul in Dec. 1841, with the British Envoy, Sir William Macnaghten); b. Karachi, India, 19 July, 1899; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the sixth form, Prefect and Head of his house, and a member of the house and school football teams, and the School Shooting Eight. From Marlborough he passed direct into Woolwich, became a member of R.M.A. Football XV, and gained his commission in the R.E., after an 18 months course, 1 Oct. 1909. After the usual period of training at Chatham he was ordered to India, served for a time in the Military Works Department at Jullunder, in the Panjab, and was then transferred to the Engineering Staff of the North- Western State Railway at Lahore, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1912.

On the outbreak of the war he was attached to the 1st K.G.’s O. Sappers and Miners, and proceeded with the 4th Field Company of the battn. as part of the Meerut Brigade to France, where he landed in Oct. 1914, and where he served, throughout the fighting at Givenchy, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, and elsewhere on the front between La Bassée and Lille, till he was killed in action in the trenches near Laventie, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in the British Cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; unm.

He was mentioned in Despatches, 30 Nov. 1915. General Nanton, C.R.E., Indian Contingent (under whom Lieut. Trevor had served in the Military Depart- ment in India, as well as at the front), wrote: “I have watched your son since he was with us in Jullunder. In this war I have noted his bravery and skill on so many occasions. We have lost a brave and good officer. He was buried with our other R.E. officers at Vieille Chapelle. He was shot whilst arranging a fixed rifle rest with his usual care, and he did not suffer for an instant”; and Col. Twining, late C.R. E. Meerut Division: “Your son worked under my orders from the time he came to France until March last. I had a high opinion of him as an officer and a strong regard for him as an individual, and I deplore his loss to the Service as well as to his relations and friends. He went through much hard and dangerous work-never spared himself in the slightest and was always cheery and ready for anything. I remember one occasion in particular last Dec. when I had to send him with another young officer out on a very difficult and dangerous task-they had been out through very severe fighting for 36 hours consecutively and were very much done, but your lad stuffed a little food into his pockets and went off again, full of cheer, with a smile. You will be glad to hear of this- it was his usual attitude and we have lost a valuable officer and a much-loved comrade.”

The late Col. Davidson Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles F.F., also wrote: “I trust you will excuse an entire stranger writing to you, but on behalf of both my officers and myself I wish to tender our deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son last month. He was, when he met his death, working in my section of the front line, as he had frequently done before, and I had always found him a most able and hard working adviser on technical points connected with the defences-always cheerful, always ready to help, never sparing himself, we shall miss him greatly and the R.E.’s have lost one of their most promising young officers. Your son had been lunching with me and discussing a rifle rest he had invented, a specimen of which he had had made and given to my regiment. He said he would like to test this particular specimen as he had not had time to do so before sending it to us. He asked if he might use my observation post to shoot from and he and my adjutant went there for the purpose. The post is raised up on a platform. Your son raised his head to look over the little breast- work and was immediately shot. We much regretted being unable, owing to the Military situation, to attend his funeral and mark our respect for him as a soldier and a comrade.”

“An officer of high professional promise, he was also a music and book lover, a talented designer and draftsman, and had a somewhat notable turn for the devising of contrivances I for the further discomfiture of the enemy,” to use the words of a brother officer. One of the first, if not absolutely the first, trench mortar used by the British, to counter the German Minnenwerfer, was made on his initiative and under his orders, of 9 inch iron piping, in the company’s workshops, and proved very effective, and it was in arranging to test a portable contrivance of his own for enabling fire to be kept up on any desired point in the dark and without exposure, that he met his death. With reference to this contrivance the O.C. 2nd Black Watch wrote in a note found among Lieut. Trevor’s papers: “We have tried your rifle rest, and found it very good.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Trevena F W Pte 931 5th Seaforth Highlanders

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Trevena F W Pte 931 5th Seaforth Highlanders

TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving s. of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer’s Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; b. London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk’s Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; unm.

The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: “We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Trevelyan W 2nd Lt 4th Rifle Brigade

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Trevelyan W 2nd Lt 4th Rifle Brigade

SECOND LIEUTENANT W. TREVELYAN

4TH BATTALION THE RIFLE BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CONSORT’S OWN)

LIEUTENANT WILFRED TREVELYAN was the second son of Sir Ernest J. Trevelyan (O.R.), D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, and of Julia Isabel his wife. He entered the School in 1907, and left in 1912. After leaving School he became an undergraduate of Manchester University, in preparation for Engineering work in India. Soon after the War broke out he was gazetted to the 5th (Reserve) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and in March, 1915, was transferred to the 4th Battalion, with which he went to France in the same month. He died on the 5th May from injuries received the previous day near Ypres, being hit by a shrapnel shell while employed on improving a communication trench. He was buried in the garden of the Château of Hooge. Age 21.

A brother Officer wrote to his father:-

“All his men wish me to tell you that they had a great respect for him and would have followed him anywhere.”

Source : Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War 1914-1918 Vol 1

Trevelyan W 2nd Lt 4th Rifle Brigade

TREVELYAN, WILFRED, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan, of 1, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, etc. [gdson. of the Ven. George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, 3rd s. of Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, 4th Bart.], by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabel, dau. of Edward Walhouse Mark, late Consul at Marseilles; b. Calcutta, 10 Oct. 1893; educ. Rugby, and at Manchester University; gazetted from the Officers’ Training Corps to the 5th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, was transferred to the 4th Battn. 8 Sept. following, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 5 May, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. He was buried in the grounds of Hooge Chateau, France; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Traherne L E Lt Comm Royal Navy

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Traherne L E Lt Comm Royal Navy

TRAHERNE, LLEWELLYN EDMUND, of Coedarhydyglyn, near Cardiff, J.P., Lt.-Commander, R.N., eldest s. of the late Llewellyn Edmund Traherne, of Coedarhydyglyn, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Henry Hogard; b. Paris, 14 Sept. 1863; joined the Britannia in Jan. 1877, and left in Dec. 1878, having taken the first prize in seamanship that year. He was appointed to H.M.S. Charybdis, then on the China Station, and took passage to her in the Encounter. He served in many stations and qualified in gunnery, gaining 1st Class Certificate in 1890, retiring in 1897. On the outbreak of the European War, at the age of 51, he rejoined as Lt.-Commander (G.) Emergency List, and was promoted to Acting-Commander of the Excellent, 12 Oct. 1914, and died while on active service, of pneumonia, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the Churchyard of the village of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. Lt.-Commander Traherne m. at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, 16 April, 1907, Dorothy Emma Olivia, elder dau. of George Felix Standish Sinclair, of 3, Manson Place, London, S.W., and grand-dau. of the late Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, of Ulbster, 3rd Bart., M.P., and had two sons and one dau. Cennydd George, now of Coedarhydyglyn, b. 14 Dec. 1910; John Rhodri Llewellyn, b. 24 Sept. 1913; and Margaret Agnes Mary, b. 1 Dec. 1908.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of  Honour Vol 1

Hanbury-Tracy F C H Lt The Hon Scots Guards

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Hanbury-Tracy F C H Lt The Hon Scots Guards

LIEUTENANT THE HON. F. C. H. HANBURY-TRACY Scots Guards

Aged 32

THIRD Son of Charles, 4th Baron Sudeley, and Ada, only daughter of the Hon. Frederick Tollemache.

Passed 2nd into R.M.C., Sandhurst.

Married Madeleine Llewellen, only daughter of Colonel George Llewellen Palmer, of Lackham, Lacock, Wilts, and leaves two sons.

Lieutenant Hanbury-Tracy was gazetted to the Scots Guards in 1903. He resigned his commission in 1907, and joined the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the War he rejoined, and went to France with his Regiment in November, 1914. He was slightly wounded in the leg when he left the trenches for an attack, near Fromelles, on December 18th, 1914, and was again wounded in the thigh on reaching the German trenches, and was unable to move. One of his Sergeants who was also slightly wounded in the head wanted to help him back, but he told him to leave him where he was, and to go, as quickly as possible, to get reinforcements which were badly needed. He must have known that in doing this he was sacrificing his life. He was shortly after taken prisoner by the Germans, and died of his wounds in their hands the next day.

One of his Commanding Officers wrote:-

“T- told me Felix was lying in front of the German trench, and some men wanted to carry him back, but Felix said ‘No.’ . . . It was a very gallant thing to do.”

Another officer wrote :-

“Poor Felix, as you have probably heard, has been killed. He led a charge against the German trenches and they got in. He was shot through both legs getting there, and most gallantly refused (so a kiddie Sergeant told me) to be bound up or moved till it was all over. I am sorry. I knew he would play the game to the end, and he did.”

Source : Harrow Memorials Of The Great War 1914-1918 Vol 1

Hanbury-Tracy F Captain The Hon Scots Guards

Source : The Illustrated London News 9th Jane 1915

Hanbury-Tracey F C H Lt 2nd Scots Guards

HANBURY-TRACEY, HON. FELIX CHARLES HUBERT, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. s. of Charles Douglas Richard, 4th Baron Sudeley, P.C., by his wife, Ada Maria Katherine, dau. of the Hon. Frederick James Tollemache; b. Buckingham Gate, S. W., 27 July, 1882; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Scots Guards, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut., 16 Nov. 1907; retired in 1907 and joined the Reserve of Officers; gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of his regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Nov., and died of wounds received in an attack on the German trenches near Fromelles, on the night of 18-19 Dec. 1914. He was wounded slightly at the commencement of the attack, but still led his men. When again wounded fatally on the parapet of the German trench, some of his men attempted to carry him back to safety, but he ordered them to leave him where he was and to go on, as he did not wish them to risk their lives in saving him. The Germans shortly afterwards re-took their trench, and he died a few hours later in their hands, and was buried by them.

He m. at Lacock, Wiltshire, 11 June, 1908, Madeline Llewellyn (13, Queen’s Gate Place, S. W.), only dau. of Col. George Llewellyn Palmer, of Lackham, Lacock, Wilts, and had two sons: Michael David Charles, b. 29 March, 1909; and Ninian John Frederick, b. 7 Dec. 1910.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1