Horace Trudgill

Name     Horace Trudgill

Number    Private

Battalion      37^th 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