A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Sandown Christ Church : Gordon Truett -

Location

In Churchyard of Christ Church, The Broadway, Sandown, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Headstone

Sandown Christ Church : G Truett
 
Inscription


37577 TRUMPETER
G TRUETT
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
21ST MAY 1915
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Further Information

Gordon Truett
 
Son of William Joseph Truett (died 1907) and Mary Ann Hester Truett (née Clamp) of Lake, Isle of Wight.
 
Born : 1899, Gibraltar.
 
Census information :
 
1901 : not found
 
1911 : Gordon Truett, aged 12, is a pupil at the Duke of York's School, Dover, Kent.
 
Service information :
 
Trumpeter 37577 Gordon Truett, 32nd. Coy., Royal Garrison Artillery.
 
Casualty information :
 
Died : 21 May 1915, aged 16.
 
CWGC record ...
 
Commemorated at these Memorials :
 
Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 13
Lake Church of the Good Shepherd War Memorial
Lake War Memorial
 
Documents and Newspaper cuttings :
 
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS
 
May 29, 1915
Deaths
TRUETT - May 21, at Parkhurst Military Hospital, Trumpeter Gordon Truett, R.G.A., second son of the late Bombr. W. Truett, R.G.A., and of Mrs. Truett, of Main-road, Lake, in his 17th year.

 
Links :
 
Duke of York's Royal Military School
 
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Page last updated : 4 February 2014 (added biographical details)


 
 

 
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