Name
George Trigg
1887
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
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONNAUGHT CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
VII. A. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
George Trigg (junior) was born in 1887 in Baldock, the son of George and Elizabeth Trigg (nee Pabis) who had married in 1882 in Baldock. He was baptised on 25 December 1887 in Baldock.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at White Horse Street, Hitchin. Present were both parents: George (35) and Elizabeth (28) and their children: Arthur (8), Alfred (7), William (4) and George (3). His father was working as a groom. By 1901 they had moved to 67 Tilehouse Street, Hitchin. His father continued working as a groom and 13 year old George (junior) was then working as a clothier’s assistant.
By 1911 George (junior) had left home and was boarding with the Marks family at 2 King St, Tower Hill, London and working as a milkman, although he was said to be living in Hitchin when he enlisted.
At the time of George’s death, his father was a coachman to Mrs Smyth in Baldock and before that had worked at the Cock Hotel in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
George enlisted in Stratford, Essex at the outbreak of war and joined the Dorsetshire Regiment, initially serving with the 5th Battalion, later being transferred to the 6th Battalion which was part of the 50th Brigade in the l7th Division of V Corps in the 3rd Army. He served in the Balkans from 22 September 1915 but was invalided home with frostbitten feet and had to have several toes removed at a hospital in Oxford. During the time he was in the hospital he had to be evacuated from the ward due to a raid on the city by a German airship.
Once recovered from the amputation of some of his toes he was sent back to the Front in France but was killed in action in France on 25 August 1918. The date of his death coincides with an attack made by the Battalion when Courcelette and Martinpuich were captured by the British. He is buried in Plot 7, Row A, Grave 5 in the Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, France.
Additional Information
His brother Arthur, sole legatee, received a war gratuity of £15 10s and pay owing of £11 2s 3d.
His pension cards record Lizzie Trigg as his mother and as his dependant, living at 50 Tilehurst Street, Hitchin. For some reason she appears to have been refused a pension.
He was the youngest of three brothers, two of whom, William and Alfred, served in the forces but survived the war.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne, Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
