George Trigg

Name

George Trigg

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

25/08/1918
31

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Lance Corporal
13231
Dorsetshire Regiment
6th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

CONNAUGHT CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
VII. A. 5.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Not on the Baldock memorials

Pre War

He was born in Baldock and was resident in Hitchin. His parents were George and Elizabeth Trigg. They were living in White Horse Street in 1891 census.


He was employed by C.F. Ansell, butchers of Hitchin, and was later in the service of Mrs Holland in Gosmore. Following this he became a groom to a clergyman in Berkshire.


His home was at 50, Tilehouse Street, Hitchin. He enlisted in Stratford in Essex soon after the outbreak of war.

Wartime Service

George was given Regimental Number 13231 and posted to the 6th Battalion of the Dorsets which was part of the 50th Brigade in the l7th Division of V Corps in the 3rd Army.


He served for a time in the Dardanelles, but was invalided home with frostbitten feet and had to have several toes removed at a hospital in Oxford. During the time that he was in this hospital he had to be removed from the ward due to a raid on the city by a German airship.


George was killed in action in France. The date of his death coincides with an attack made by the Battalion when Courcelette and Martinpuich were captured by the British. He was buried in Plot 7, Row A, Grave 5 in the Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval in France.

Additional Information

He was the youngest of three brothers, two of whom were in the forces.

Acknowledgments

Adrian Dunne, Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, David C Baines, Jonty Wild