Samuel Trout
Service number
8599
Military unit
2nd Bn York and Lancaster Regiment
Address
Nottingham
Date of birth
25 Dec 1887
Date of death
23 Oct 1914 (26 years old)
Place of birth
Nottingham
Employment, education or hobbies
He wasa career soldier enlisting on 27th February 1907
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Samuel Trout was born on 25th December 1887 at Nottingham he was the son of Thomas Samuel Trout a bricklayers labourer and Nellie Trout
In 1901 he was an inmate of the Wandsworth Boys' Home Reformatory in London.
In 1911 he was serving with 2nd Bn York and Lancaster Regiment at Farnham Surrey. he was 23 yrs of age,
Military history
Private Samuel Trout enlisted at Doncaster,on 27th February 1907 he was a farm servant. He served with the 2nd battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, landing in France on 9th September 1914, having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Extra information
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Photographs
Photo of Samuel Trout
Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium