Name
Cyril Claude Tripp
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
3rd Bn. attd. 7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GRANDCOURT ROAD CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
C. 93.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Town Memorial, Hampstead Parish Church Memorial, Dunchurch Hall Preparatory School Memorial, Warwickshire
Pre War
Cyril Claude Howard Tripp was born in 1896 in Derby, Derbyshire, the youngest son of Charles and Laura Tripp.
On the 1901 Census he was living with this family in Duffield Road, Derby. He was educated at Dunchurch Hall Preparatory School, Warwickshire and received a scholarship to attend Shrewsbury School, nr Rugby from 1910 to 1913. By the 1911 Census, the family had moved to 12 Crediton Road, Hampstead, where his father was managing director of Ind Coope brewery. They later lived at 489 Finchley Road, Hampstead in 1916.
Wartime Service
He enlisted initially into the Honourable Artillery Company as a Private, Reg. No. 2834.
He served in France from 18 April 1915 and was wounded in June 1915. He was gazetted into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in August 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant and left for the front in June 1916, but was killed within 5 months of arrival on 13 November 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
He is buried in Grandcourt Road Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
The administrator of his estate, Herbert Louis Perry received his pay owing of £90 8s 3d and a war gratuity of £5.
His brother Donald died on 18 August 1916 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. His brother Hubert also served, initially with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, later transferring to the 4th Btn Kings Liverpool Regiment, where he served as Captain. He survived the war and died in Ealing in 1948.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot/2016/07/the-battle-of-somme-100-years-ago
