Name
George Trigg
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
13231
Dorsetshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONNAUGHT CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
VII. A. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
He was born in Baldock and was resident in Hitchin. His parents were George and Elizabeth Trigg. They were living in White Horse Street in 1891 census.
He was employed by C.F. Ansell, butchers of Hitchin, and was later in the service of Mrs Holland in Gosmore. Following this he became a groom to a clergyman in Berkshire.
His home was at 50, Tilehouse Street, Hitchin. He enlisted in Stratford in Essex soon after the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
George was given Regimental Number 13231 and posted to the 6th Battalion of the Dorsets which was part of the 50th Brigade in the l7th Division of V Corps in the 3rd Army.
He served for a time in the Dardanelles, but was invalided home with frostbitten feet and had to have several toes removed at a hospital in Oxford. During the time that he was in this hospital he had to be removed from the ward due to a raid on the city by a German airship.
George was killed in action in France. The date of his death coincides with an attack made by the Battalion when Courcelette and Martinpuich were captured by the British. He was buried in Plot 7, Row A, Grave 5 in the Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval in France.
Additional Information
He was the youngest of three brothers, two of whom were in the forces.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
