Lieutenant C. F. M. Trotter
“Quite a gloom was cast over Crewe when news was received that Lieut C. F. M. Trotter, of Crewe Railway Engineers, had met with his death at Chatham on the previous evening under very sad circumstances. On the previous week he had left Crewe in charge of one of the two sections of volunteers selected from the Crewe Corps for active service in South Africa, and while exercising his horse on the Great Lines at Chatham, an animal that he proposed purchasing and taking with him to South Africa, he was thrown violently to the ground and died shortly afterwards from the effects of his injuries. The remains of the deceased were removed from Chatham to the residence of his parents at Polesworth Vicarage, and were interred in Polesworth Churchyard on the following Sunday afternoon. The funeral was attended with full military honours, the band of the Crewe Engineers, and a number of rank and file of the battalion being present.”
- Eardley’s
Crewe Almanack, April 12th, 1901