Private Reginald Francis Trevor

Private, 21st Battalion, Infantry (Army).

Son of Edward Francis and Annie Trevor, of 29, Wall St., Brockville, Ontario. Native of Souldern, Oxon, England.

Letter describing Private Trevor's death:

COMRADE WAS KILLED IN BED ALONGSIDE HIM
Nerve-Trying Experience of Son of Mayor Donaldson of Brockville

Monday morning Mayor Donaldson of Brockville received a letter from his son, Private Allyn Donaldson, 21st Battalion, from France. Among other things he says:

We have had awfully hard luck. Poor Lieut. Wilgress, Sergeant Ennos [Ennoss] and Reg Trevor were killed by a shell. The shell burst about ten feet from Lieut. Wilgress and Sergeant Ennos and the nose of the shell came through our dugout and killed poor Trevor.

We were on sentry duty all night and shortly after breakfast another fellow and I were standing in one of the bays, and we saw two of our boys going across the field and someone said: "Watch those fellows get it." The words were not sooner spoken when a rifle bullet killed both of them. Two of the stretcher bearers went out to get them, one of them was killed and the other badly wounded.

About 1 a.m. we got into bed and we were talking about 15 minutes when I aside to Trevor: "We had better lie down and sleep until dinner." Well, we weren't lying down more than ten minutes when I felt dirt fall down on my head and left shoulder. I then turned over on my side and saw poor Trevor lying dead beside me. We were sleeping side by side, and my body was touching him. He received the nose of the bullet in the head. It certainly was a terrible shock. This happened on the 27th of October.

I wrote and told you about poor Bob Deegan. Neither he nor Pte. Trevor know what happened to them.

Source: The St. Lawrence Republican. Wednesday December 29, 1915. Page 4.