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Name Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper
Regiment 14th Bn Hampshire Regiment
Service Rank and Number Captain
Military Cemetery/Memorial Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery Ypres.
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial A 30
Country of Cemetery/Memorial Belgium
Medals Awarded
Date and Circumstances of Death He died at an advanced dressing station on the 3rd August 1917 from wounds received the previous day at Ypres.
Biographical Details Known He is listed in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour which gives a short biographical account of which the following is a summary.
His parents were George Edward Trevor-Roper of Rhual Isa, Mold and his wife Harriet. Charles was born in Mold on the 9th February 1884. In 1901 he succeeded to the Plas Teg Estate on the death of his uncle Colonel Charles James Trevor-Roper. He was educated at Bedford and at Clare College Cambridge.
This is the really interesting part! He was a student at the Acadamy of Dramatic Art in Gower Street and he played in London under the renowned H.B Irving and went on an Australian tour with his company in 1911.
He was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was gazetted to Captain on the 14th December 1914 and served with the expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September 1916. His Commanding officer wrote of him,
" He had done his duty nobly in the attack for three days under most trying conditions. He was popular with the whole brigade and loved by the men and officers of his company."
He had married Gertrude Alice Clabby on 8th April 1913 in Enfield, London and had three children Elizabeth Alice, Richard Dacre and Anne.
His brother Geoffrey was also killed - only weeks later. He died on 20th September 1917. He has his own page on this website.
Regiment 14th Bn Hampshire Regiment
Service Rank and Number Captain
Military Cemetery/Memorial Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery Ypres.
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial A 30
Country of Cemetery/Memorial Belgium
Medals Awarded
Date and Circumstances of Death He died at an advanced dressing station on the 3rd August 1917 from wounds received the previous day at Ypres.
Biographical Details Known He is listed in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour which gives a short biographical account of which the following is a summary.
His parents were George Edward Trevor-Roper of Rhual Isa, Mold and his wife Harriet. Charles was born in Mold on the 9th February 1884. In 1901 he succeeded to the Plas Teg Estate on the death of his uncle Colonel Charles James Trevor-Roper. He was educated at Bedford and at Clare College Cambridge.
This is the really interesting part! He was a student at the Acadamy of Dramatic Art in Gower Street and he played in London under the renowned H.B Irving and went on an Australian tour with his company in 1911.
He was formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was gazetted to Captain on the 14th December 1914 and served with the expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September 1916. His Commanding officer wrote of him,
" He had done his duty nobly in the attack for three days under most trying conditions. He was popular with the whole brigade and loved by the men and officers of his company."
He had married Gertrude Alice Clabby on 8th April 1913 in Enfield, London and had three children Elizabeth Alice, Richard Dacre and Anne.
His brother Geoffrey was also killed - only weeks later. He died on 20th September 1917. He has his own page on this website.
