World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Murray Trotter
Forename(s):
Thomas Murray
Surname:
Trotter
Initial(s):
T M
Service Number:
67617
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 2/3rd Battalion
Died:
26/10/1917
Aged:
22
Buried:
Tyne Cot Memorial (Tyne Cot Cemetery)
Service History:
Enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in June 1915, at Morpeth, Northumberland, but was discharged on medical grounds within 16 days as 'not likely to become an efficient soldier'.
Trotter had, in any case, requested that he be transferred to the Army Service Corps (Remounts), the units of which were charged with the acquisition & management of horses for the Army.
(Source: 'The Valley Remembers'; Edited by Sandy Hunter; Upper Coquetdale WW1 Project; 2014; pp.27-28)
Formerly 77826, 89th Training Reserve Battalion
Background:
Born at Rothbury, Northumberland, the son of Jane Trotter, of Newtown, Rothbury, & the late Ralph Trotter.
Pre-enlistment occupation: Farm Servant.
Local Memorial:
Hepple, Christ Church
Rothbury War Memorial
Thropton, Village Hall
(Source: For Hepple & Thropton, newmp.org.uk)