Name
David Samuel Trundle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3142A
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
33rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XX. D. 13A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham,
Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham,
Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross,
Not on the Little Hadham memorials
Pre War
Born on 26 Oct 1891 and baptised 29 Nov 1891 in Pig’s Green, Little Hadham son of David and Sarah Elizabeth (Tew) Trundle later of Whiprow, Much Hadham and later of Perry Green.
In 1911 he was living in the Pest House, Green Hill, Much Hadham. He was a farm labourer. Aged 21 he left from London on 22 Aug 1912 by boat for Sydney, Australia arriving on 5 Oct 1912 intending to settle there. His uncle William was already in New South Wales. David worked as a cowman.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 17 Oct 1916 in Rutherford, NSW, Australia. During December 1916, he was admitted to a Field Hospital, where he spent two weeks with measles. He embarked at Sydney on 24 Jan 1917, arrived in Devonport on 27 Mar 1917 and in April spent four days at his old home in Much Hadham. David was posted to France on 22nd August 1917 and entered France on 24 Aug 1917. He arrived at the front at Rouelles on 31 Aug 1917, marching to the front line on September 2nd. He suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen on 3 Oct and died the following day in the 10th Casualty Clearing Station in Lijssenthoek. Extracts from a letter sent by the Lieutenant Colonel of his Regiment: "Your gallant son was wounded (shot in the abdomen) near Zonnenbeke on October 3rd and died the following day at the 10th Casualty Clearing Station. Inaction he was courageous, cool and determined."
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum)
