Trumpington on IWM’s ‘Lives of the First World War’

Gateway to the Trumpington Community on the Imperial War Museum (IWM) digital memorial ‘Lives of the First World War’. Members of the Local History Group have researched the men and women of Trumpington who contributed to the War and this information has been added to the Trumpington Community on the IWM’s Lives of the First World War database. There is a Project Description on the IWM system.

The first group of names below are those of the 189 men who have an entry on the ‘Roll of Honour’ board, displayed in Trumpington Village Hall. There are links to ‘IWM Lives’ records for 165 of these men, giving biographical (family and military) information. Unfortunately, although family details are known for most of the remaining 24 men, we have been unable to trace a specific military record for them. The reason may be that they did not serve overseas and hence have no medal record or they may have shared the same name as several men in a particular regiment and hence are unable to be specifically identified.

The second group of names are of 113 men and women who were not included on the Roll of Honour but had a strong connection with Trumpington and have been identified as having served during WWI. This group includes men and women of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) service and men of the Trumpington Volunteer Training Corps (VTC).