Name
Albert Edward Trussell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Geoffrey Colin Budd (Colin) from Port Clinton, Ohio, USA believes that Albert and Charles Trussell were brothers, born respectively on July 2nd 1882 and December 13th 1885 to Thomas and Mary Trussell (née Goldsmith). Parish records confirm Albert’s date of birth and his parents, but no Charles born on the date Colin suggests has been found. However a brother, William Charles, was born on January 14th 1886.
Baptism records list five children: Lizzie (b 1879), Albert Edward (b 1882), William Charles (b 1886), Susan (b 1890) and John (b 1892). It would also seem that William Charles also served and survived - see William Charles Trussell for clarification.
Before the war Albert married Elizabeth Baines in 1905 in Islington and they had a child Richard George (b 1907) and then another, William (b 1915), born during the war but before Arthur was called up. The Parish Magazine of February 1917 records this Arthur as ‘having been called up since our last list was published’. He would have been thirty-four.
A memorial in St. Mary’s Church’s Garden of Rest records that Albert died in 1967, when he would have been about eighty-five. Elizabeth also died that year, aged about eighty-seven.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission, Geoffrey Colin Budd (Colin)
