In Memory Of

TROMPETTER, ANTONIE COENRAAD

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 HT/3977
Rank:
 Driver
Unit:
 No. 1 Auxiliary Horse Company
Regiment:
 Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport
Date of Death:
 1919-06-14
Cause of Death:
 Accidentally killed, by the explosion of a German stick grenade. While with his fellow Driver J Webster around mid day on the 14th of June 1919. He was leading two drought horses from a wagon when one horse stepped on a German grenade, detonating it. Webster laid his friend down next to one of their wagons "10 yards from the railway where it crosses the Neureuil-Fresnes track". Webster raced off to find aid, but Trompetter died alone, very shortly after Webster's departure.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 E. 32.
Cemetery:
 DOUAI BRITISH CEMETERY, CUINCY
Localitly:
 Nord
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Brother of Elsie Trompetter, of Alexandria, Cape Province