Name
Herbert Ernest Trott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/06/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
SR/7191
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 49 and 51.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Born in Bushey in the third quarter of 1897, Herbert Ernest was the son of Charles James and Harriet (nee Perry) Trott. His parents were married in 1885 in the registration district of Hendon.
At the 1901 census, Herbert was three years old and lived at 35 Herkomer Road in Bushey with his parents and five siblings. Their names were Mary Elizabeth, Charles William, Sarah Esther, Lilian Violet and Dorothy Ethel and their ages were 13, 11, 7, 5 and 1 year respectively. His father and mother were 36 and 34 years old respectively and his father was working as a general labourer. Birthplaces were given as Bushey in Hertfordshire for Charles (Snr.), Edgware in Middlesex for Harriet and Mary, Hendon for Charles (Jnr.) and Bushey for the other four children.
At the 1911 census, Herbert was an ‘inmate’, training as a shoemaker, at Church Farm Home, Boy’s Industrial School, Church Hill Road in East Barnet. Industrial schools were created as a type of reformatory school for boys who had been convicted of a crime. The crime of which Herbert was convicted is not known.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Mill Hill and served on the western front as Private SR/7191 in the 23rd Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment. He was killed in action on 7 June 1917, almost a year after his brother, Corporal 12942 Charles William, who was killed in action on the first day of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1916. Herbert is commemorated at the Menin Gate and in Bushey on the Clay Hill memorial and in St James’ Church.
The Army Registers of Soldier’s Effects named his mother, Harriet, as the sole legatee and showed payments of £17 14s. 1d. on 1 November 1917 and £13 0s. 0d. on 15 November 1919. His pension card also named his mother, Harriet, as his dependent. Her name is later crossed through, annotated died 29/9/26, and replaced with Charles James Trott, father. His awards record was destroyed.
Additional Information
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
