Name
George Trigg
1887
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
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
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
George (junior) was born in 1887 in Baldock and christened on 25 Dec 1887 in Baldock. His parents were George and Elizabeth Trigg (believed née Pabis and married 1882).
In 1891 the family were living at White Horse Street, Hitchin. Present were both parents: George (35) and Elizabeth (28), with George (senior) working as a groom. Their children were: Arthur (8), Alfred (7), William (4) and George (3).
By 1901 the family were living at 67 Tilehouse Street, Hitchin. Present were both parents, George still a groom. All the children previous listed were present, with George, now 13, working as a clothier’s assistant.
By 1911 George (junior) had left home and was boarding with the Marks family at 2 King St, Tower Hill, London. George was working as a milkman.
Officially he was recorded as born in Baldock, Herts. and was living in Hitchin, when he enlisted in Stratford, Essex.
At the time of George’s (junior) death, his father was a coachman to Mrs Smyth in Baldock and before that had worked at the Cock Hotel in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
George was given Regimental Number 13231 and although originally in the 5th Battalion, he was 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 in the Balkans landing there on 22 September 1915.
He was reported to have enlisted at the outbreak of war and 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. He 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
After his death £11 2s 3d pay owing was authorised to go to his brother, Arthur, on 10 December 1918. Later, a war gratuity of £15 10s was authorised to be paid to him on 12 December 1919.
His pension cards record Lizzie Trigg as his mother and as his dependant, living at 50 Tilehurst Street, Hitchin. For some reason she appears to have been refused a pension.
He was the youngest of three brothers, two of whom, William and Alfred, were in the forces.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
