Service Details
Name:
 TROMPETTER
Given Name:
 ANTONIE COENRAAD
Initials:
 A C
Service No:
 HT/3977
Rank:
 Driver
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Regiment:
 Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport
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Unit:
 No. 1 Auxiliary Horse Company
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Date of Death:
 1919-06-14
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Age:
 26
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.
Additional
Information:
Brother of Elsie Trompetter, of Alexandria, Cape Province
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Nord
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Cemetery:
 DOUAI BRITISH CEMETERY, CUINCY
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Grave Reference:
 E. 32.

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