TROTTER, Edwin Herbert
| Service Number: | 4171 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 September 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tanunda, South Australia, 30 December 1890 |
| Home Town: | Tanunda, Barossa, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Tanunda Public School |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 25 July 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave - Remembered on parents grave at Tabor Cemetery, Tanunda, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Loxton Pyap Estate Great War Roll of Honor, Loxton Soldiers Memorial Rotunda, Loxton and District Great War Roll of Honor, Tanunda Roll of Honor, Tanunda War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4171, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 11 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4171, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide | |
| 11 Feb 1916: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 4171, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, embarkation_roll: roll_number: 10 embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: |
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| 25 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4171, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Edwin Trotter was born on 30 December 1890, to John and Cecelie Trotter of Tanunda.
Upon enlisting on 1 September 1915 he stated that he was single, working as a carpenter and living in Tanunda.
He embarked on HMAT Borda (A30) on 11 January 1916 with the 12th Battalion.
He spent early 1916 in Egypt with the 12th Battalion training before the battalion was relocated to the Western Front.
The first major engagement the 12th Battalion was involved in was the Battle of Pozieres / Mouquet Farm. Within five weeks of fighting in the area the AIF had suffered 23,000 causalities. One of these was Private Trotter, who was killed in action on 25 July, 1916 - the third day of fighting since the beginning of the Pozieres Campaign. He has now known grave and thus is memorialised on the Villers-Bretonneux Australian National War Memorial. He was 25.
Awarded:
British War Medal: 28610
Victory Medal: 28430
Memorial Plaque: 307310
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