Name
Gerald Theodore Trussell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203295
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48-50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Essendon War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Essendon
Pre War
Gerald was born in 1898 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Son of Edgar John Trussell a Licenced Victualler and Evelyn Trussell. Gerald was one of seven children.
The 1901 census shows Gerald aged 3, living with his Parents, 2 Brothers and 3 Sisters. At “The Red Lion Hotel” 15 Lower Green Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent and the 1911 census shows Gerald aged 13, living with his Parents and Sister at “The London PH”, 10 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire.
Wartime Service
Gerald enlisted into the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 203295.
He was Killed in Action on the 30th October 1917, at the Third Battle of Ypres 1917, (Second battle of Passchendaele) (26th October 1917 to 10th November 1917).
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Note: Corporal Thomas Taylor of Essendon was also Killed on the same day and was in the same Battalion.
Additional Information
In 1917 Gerald’s Father was the Proprietor of “The Rose & Crown” in Essendon, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Sue and Colin Rees, Stuart Osborne
