Armorel Avis Katherine Trevelyan b. 1898 Kingstown, Dublin, Ireland (Mar 1898 Rathdown IRL 2 842) d. 27 Feb 1917 France: Featherstone One Name Study

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Armorel Avis Katherine Trevelyan[1, 2, 3, 4]

Female 1898 - 1917  (19 years)


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  • Name Armorel Avis Katherine Trevelyan  [1] 
    Birth 17 Oct 1897  [2] 
    Born 1898  Kingstown, Dublin, Ireland (Mar 1898 Rathdown IRL 2 842) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4] 
    Gender Female 
    Name Armorel Kitty Trevelyan  [2] 
    Name Katherine Trevelyan  [4] 
    Name Kitty Trevelyan  [3] 
    Residence 1901  Hoomeavy House, Meavy, Devon Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • age 3; relationship to head: cousin
    Residence 1911  Meavy, Yelverton, Devon Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • age 13; relationship to head: step daughter
    _MILT 1916 
    • Army Service Corps (Canteens)
    Died 27 Feb 1917  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Wimereux, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • birth registration index Armorel Avis K Trevelyan Mar 1898 Rathdown IRL 2 842

      1901 census RG13/2117/131/3
      Hoomeavy House, Meavy, Devon
      Richarda Woolfe (sister crossed out) head S 22 living on own means Ireland
      Flora G Deacon niece 6 Devon, Meavy
      Walter R Trevelyan cousin 7 Ireland
      Katherine Trevelyan cousin 3 Ireland
      and five servants

      Find A Grave memorial 56080782
      Armorel Kitty Trevelyan born 17 October 1897 died 27 February 1917 age 19 France
      Buried Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Wimereux, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France plot III. F. 4.

      Rank:Civilian Date of Death:27/02/1917 Age:19 Parents: Mrs. Trevelyan (now Sinclair) and the late Captain Walter Raleigh Trevelyan
      Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps (Canteens)
      Armorel Kitty Trevelyan joined up as a volunteer worker aged just 17. After her death in France, it took 100 years to the day for her name to be added to the Meavy war memorial.
      Despite being four years underage, Armorel managed to join up as a VAD worker and was soon shipped out to France in 1916. She worked for 13 months with the Army Service Corps as a 'skivvy', serving food to men on the front lines.
      Born Armorel Katherine Trevelyan in County Dublin in 1898, the daughter of Georgina and the wonderfully-named Walter Raleigh Trevelyan. The family were comfortably well-off, although her father and mother divorced when Armorel was six. Her mother soon remarried and moved with her new husband and Armorel to the hamlet of Meavy, near Yelverton on the edge of Dartmoor. At the outbreak of war, Armorel and her family were living in The Parsonage (now Meavy House).
      Sadly, after her war time adventure as a VAD, she contracted measles and pneumonia and died in France on the 27th February 1917, far from her home and family. Armorel is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in Wimereaux, in the Pas de Calais. Although her name was entered on the Roll of Honour at her local church, it was omitted from the tiny war memorial in Meavy. After a campaign by Wenches in Trenches, her name was finally added and a memorial service held on the 26th February 2017, one day before the centenary of her death.

      Inscription
      Blessed Art
      The Pure in Heart
      For They Shall See God
      Gravesite Details Civilian, Army Service Corps (Canteens). age 19.
    Person ID I372421952835  Southern England
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Father Walter Raleigh Trevelyan,   b. 29 Aug 1865, Portsea, Hampshire (Sep 1865 Portsea Island HAM 2b 437) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1916, Royal Military Hospital, Devonport, Devon (Jun 1916 Devonport DEV 5b 449) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years) 
    Mother Georgina Alice Fetherston-whitney,   b. 10 Feb 1866, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (1866 Dublin South IRL 2 799) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1923, Kilmoylan, Quarryvale, Palmerston, County Dublin, Ireland (Sep 1923 Dublin South IRL 2 253) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 25 Jun 1891  Rathaspeck, County Westmeath, Ireland (Jun 1891 Granard IRL 3 145) Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Divorced 1903  [6] 
    Family ID F245  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDied - 27 Feb 1917 - France Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1435192714] Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2011;).
      Record for Armorel Avis K Trevelyan

    2. [S1435192807] Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2012;).
      Record for Armorel Kitty Trevelyan

    3. [S1435192921] 1911 England Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2011;), The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911.
      Record for Herman Sinclair Sinclair

    4. [S1435192961] 1901 England Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2005;), Class: RG13; Piece: 2117; Folio: 131; Page: 3.
      Record for Katherine Trevelyan

    5. [S1435192777] Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2011;).
      Record for Georgiana Alice F Whitney

    6. [S1435192939] England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1915, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2012;), The National Archives; Kew, Surrey; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files, J 77; Reference Number: J 77/783/3840.
      Record for Georgina Alice Trevelyan


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