Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameEdith Mary Trotter CBE 
[3, 1878 birth & 1962 death indexes], [4, 1901, PRO ref RG 13/1143 for The Rectory, Whitchurch, Oxon], [3, Her birth, Q3 of 1878, Southampton dist, vol 2c, p. 16]
[3, 1878 birth & 1962 death indexes], [4, 1901, PRO ref RG 13/1143 for The Rectory, Whitchurch, Oxon], [3, Her birth, Q3 of 1878, Southampton dist, vol 2c, p. 16]Birth11 Jul 1878, The Vicarage, Northam, Hants [4, 1881]
Death15 Jul 1962, 20 Braidley Road, Bournemouth
General1st dau. dsp. d.unm. Gained CBE as Asst Ch Cont, Personnel, of QMAAC in WW1.
FatherRev Canon Henry Eden Trotter (born BROWN) (1844-1922)
MotherMary Hodgson Gillett (1856-1947)
Notes for Edith Mary Trotter CBE
The Times of 17th July 1962 has a short obituary on her on page 12 column 5.
On her death certificate she was a spinster of private means and with CBE; she died of heart failure and the informant was her youngest, and only surviving, brother Arthur. She had been living at Flat 2a, Bransgore House, Bransgore, Ringwood but died at 20 Braidley Road (her sister Evelyn used to live at No 18 so I wonder if there is some confusion here and the death was really at No 18?).
In the 1901 census she was living at The Rectory, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire with her parents, aged 22 and born in Northam, Hants.
Her birth certificate was No 214 in the register for 1878.
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June 2008, TFPL: At last I have more details of her WW1 activity and the CBE she received:
She was OBE during the war sometime,and on 1st June 1918 the London Gazette had this for QMAAC, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary:Corps:
Miss E. M. Trotter, O.B.E., Asst Chief Controller i/c Personnel
Her retirement came a year later in the London Gazette:
The undermentioned cease to be empld: ... Miss E. M. Trotter, O.B.E. A.C.C., 1st July 1919.
The London Gazette finally announced that on 12th Dec 1919 she had been appointed Commander of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire:
Trotter, Miss Edith Mary, O.B.E., Asst Ch. Contlr [Personnel] Q.M.A.A.C.
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My father found some information from the Imperial War Museum who quoted the obituary in the Times of 17th July 1962 that she was “Director of Personnel in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps during the first World War”.
The Museum also produced her Who Was Who entry which included “Served in Qeen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1917-1919 successively as Deputy Section Controller, H.Q. Recruiting Controller for South Western England and Controller of Personnel”. Usually the Who’s Who entries were originally written by the person concerned and certainly countersigned by them.
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Found in the 1939 Register as Edith mary Frotter, born 12 July 1878 (1 day out). She was ‘Local Representative Women’s (unpaid) Land Army’.
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On her death certificate she was a spinster of private means and with CBE; she died of heart failure and the informant was her youngest, and only surviving, brother Arthur. She had been living at Flat 2a, Bransgore House, Bransgore, Ringwood but died at 20 Braidley Road (her sister Evelyn used to live at No 18 so I wonder if there is some confusion here and the death was really at No 18?).
In the 1901 census she was living at The Rectory, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire with her parents, aged 22 and born in Northam, Hants.
Her birth certificate was No 214 in the register for 1878.
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June 2008, TFPL: At last I have more details of her WW1 activity and the CBE she received:
She was OBE during the war sometime,and on 1st June 1918 the London Gazette had this for QMAAC, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary:Corps:
Miss E. M. Trotter, O.B.E., Asst Chief Controller i/c Personnel
Her retirement came a year later in the London Gazette:
The undermentioned cease to be empld: ... Miss E. M. Trotter, O.B.E. A.C.C., 1st July 1919.
The London Gazette finally announced that on 12th Dec 1919 she had been appointed Commander of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire:
Trotter, Miss Edith Mary, O.B.E., Asst Ch. Contlr [Personnel] Q.M.A.A.C.
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My father found some information from the Imperial War Museum who quoted the obituary in the Times of 17th July 1962 that she was “Director of Personnel in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps during the first World War”.
The Museum also produced her Who Was Who entry which included “Served in Qeen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1917-1919 successively as Deputy Section Controller, H.Q. Recruiting Controller for South Western England and Controller of Personnel”. Usually the Who’s Who entries were originally written by the person concerned and certainly countersigned by them.
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Found in the 1939 Register as Edith mary Frotter, born 12 July 1878 (1 day out). She was ‘Local Representative Women’s (unpaid) Land Army’.
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