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Note: Debt of Honour Register In Memory of
A J TRENT
Private 34359 7th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry
who died on Thursday 7 June 1917 . Age 20 . Son of William and Frances Trent, of Yew Tree Cottage, Salisbury Rd., Shaftesbury, Dorset. Native of Cucklington, Wincanton, Somerset.
Lagnicourt was taken in April, 1917. On the 15th April it was the scene of a desperate counter-attack by the Prussian Guard, which was repelled. It was lost on the 21st March, 1918, and retaken by the 2nd Guards Brigade on the following 3rd September. Lagnicourt Hedge Cemetery was begun by the 7th Somerset Light Infantry in June, 1917 (though one Australian grave of April, 1917, is in Row C), and used until November, 1917.
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Gilbert said in his letters that he had 2 younger brothers...and according to the births I have confirmed of his siblings, George and Edward would be younger than Gilbert, therefore I put George at aft 1890 (Gilbert's DOB).
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