Horace Trudgill
Name Horace Trudgill
Number Private
Battalion 37th Battalion
Place of Birth Norfolk England
Next of Kin Mr. Denis Trudgill Long Row Tibenham, Long Startton (or Swetshall) Norfolk.
Date and place of enlistment Leongatha 17/5/1916
Physical details on enlistment Age 21 years and 2 month,
5’ 8 ½ ”, 118 pounds, blue eyes and brown hair
Religion Methodist
Occupation milkman or dairyman
Date and place of death
He was wounded in action on 4/10/1917 at Popperinge and died at the Third Australian Casualty Clearing Station in Belgium.
Location of grave or memorial
He was buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery 8 miles west of Ypres
Relationship to Woorayl Shire
He lived and worked in the Shire and enlisted in Leongatha
Military History
- 17/5/16 He enlisted in Leongatha
- 25/9/16 He embarked from Port Melbourne on the HMAT Shropshire
- 11/11/16 He disembarked at Plymouth
- 20/12 /16 He went to France from Folkstone on the Princess Victoria
- 21/12/16 He was at Etaples
- 2/1/17 He was in a segregation camp
- 15/3/17 He marched out to the front
- 4/10/17 He was wounded in action and died of wounds at the Third Australian Casualty Clearing Station
- 7/10/17 He was buried in Nine Elms British cemetery 8 miles west of Ypres
- In his Will his property was to be divided equally amongst his sisters Mary, Louise and Nelly. This will was made in Melbourne
- He worked for Mr. W B Drowley c/o Leongatha P O
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