LE POER TRENCH, Nugent Charles
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar and School, Ballarat College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Cable Operator |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 16 January 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe Plot I, Row L, Grave 14 Headstone Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN" |
| Memorials: | Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jan 1917: |
Wounded
Second Lieutenant, Officer, Unspecified British Units, Killed in action When war broke out he was stationed at Bamfield, Vancouver, and two months afterwards he enlisted as a Private in the 29th Vancouver Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, and went with them to England and rose to rank of Sergeant. Then he was transferred to an English Regiment, the British Army - East Surrey Regiment 9th Battalion, and was given his commission as 2nd Lieutenant. |
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NUGENT CHARLES LE POER TRENCH
Was killed in action in France on 16th January 1917 was the son of the late Mr. Charles Le Poer Trench. He was born in 1888 and was at the Melbourne Grammar School in 1901-2 and then went to Ballarat College. In 1904 he joined the Pacific Cable Co. in Southport, Queensland, afterwards going to Fiji and Fanning Island. When war broke out he was stationed at Bamfield, Vancouver, and two months afterwards he enlisted as a Private in the 29th Vancouver Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, and went with them to England and rose to rank of Sergeant. Then he was transferred to an English regiment, the 9th East Surreys, and was given his commission as 2nd Lieutenant. Shortly after joining them he met with a bad accident to his leg while in camp and was for some time in Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers. He afterwards went to France and joined his regiment, who were holding the Hulluck line, and was only there six weeks when he was killed instantaneously by a heavy trench mortar shell. He was buried at Mezingarte.
Source : War Services Old Melburnians 1914 – 1918
Son of Charles Henry and Eugenie Le POER TRENCH.
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Ancestry birth records
Name Nugent Charles Le Poer Trench
Birth Date Abt 1887
Birth Place Sandhurst, Victoria
Registration Year 1887
Registration Place Victoria, Australia
Father Charles Henry Le Poer Trench
Mother Eugenie Millin
Registration Number 31825
Ancestry records
Name Second Lieutenant Nugent Charles Le Poer Trench
Gender Male
Birth Date 1887
Birth Place Bendigo, Greater Bendigo City, Victoria, Australia
Death Date 16 Jan 1917
Death Place France
Cemetery Philosophe British Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place Mazingarbe, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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