221689 Pte. Owen Trumble British Army 6th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (d.22nd Dec 1917) Owen Trumble was a coal miner before he joined up. His mother and her family were from Northern Ireland so I guess that is why he joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusilers. His mother died from complications after childbirth in 1903 when his youngest brother, Bernard, was born. My grandmother, his sister, Margaret took on the role of mother and when he was sent to a reform school in Manchester, with his brother John, she walked the 24 mile round trip from Tyldesley every Sunday to see them.
Having lost John in 1916 in Flanders she was heartbroken to lose Owen in December 1917 and when my father enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1934 she refused to speak to him for two weeks, relenting on the day he set off to join his regiment.
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