This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Ernest Frederick Trott)
(Trott, Ernest Frederick)
Service no M2/135721
Private, Army Service Corps, 17th Ammunition Sub-Park
Died age 25 on 5 November 1916
Son of Mrs. A. R. Trott, of 42, Fentiman Rd., Clapham, London.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at St Mark's Church, London SE11
British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920
Ernest Trott signed up at Grove Park on 8 November 1915. He was 25 and single. He joined the Mechanical Transport Branch of the Army Service Corps.
Trott was killed in action in the field just over a year later, leaving 3 brothers and 2 sisters (the 1911 census states that he was one of 8 children of Henry and Alice Trott, so possibly 2 had died in the intervening period).
Trott was taller than average: 5 feet 10inches (the record states 10 and an eighth), 136 pounds, 37 inches around the chest with an expansion of 2½ inches.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Ernest Frederick Trott, then 21, was working as a railway messenger and living with his parents and siblings at 79 Trigon Road. Henry Trott, 48, was a bookbinder, born in Clerkenwell, London; Alice Trott, 47, was also born in Clerkenwell. There were 8 surviving children (of 11), 7 of whom were registered on the census:
Ernest Trott, on the memorial, born in Clerkenwell
Charles, 18, a kitchen porter, born in Lambeth
Maud Trott, 16, a dressmaker, born in Lambeth
George Trott, 14, an errand boy, born in Lambeth
Albert Trott, 9, born in Lambeth
Walter Trott, 7, born in Lambeth
Rose Trott, 1, born in Lambeth