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Name: TRENCH, William Langton MC (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: 2nd and twin son of Rev William Robert Trench of Kendal, Westmorland
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1880 Liverpool
Death Date: 27 June 1932 Eldoret
Last Date: 1932
Area: Kitale
Married: In Nairobi 15 Nov 1927 Dorothy Alice Fidler b. 1892 Reading, d. 14 Apr 1968 Weymouth, midwife (in 1934 m. Herbert Philip Wynne Humphreys 1889-1965)
Children: none
Book Reference: Debrett, Burke, Web, Barnes, Red 25 and 31, Hut
War Service: Lieut-Col West Yorks Regt. in WW1
School: Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge
General Information:
Kitale cemetery - Lt.-Col. William Langton Trench MC - born 1880, died 27 Jun 1932. Inscription: in loving memory of / William Langton Trench / Lieutenant Colonel M.C. / The West Yorkshire Regiment / European War / born Nov 10th 1880 died June 27th 1932 / ... et fidelitate
Gazette - 28/2/1933 -Probate and Administration - Colonel William Langton Trench who died at Eldoret on 27 June 1932
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at TRINITY, June 25, 1899. [2nd (and twin)] s. of the Rev. William Robert (1856), of Kendal vicarage, Westmorland. B. Nov. 10, 1880, in Liverpool. School, Marlborough College. Matric. Michs. 1899; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1914. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, 21st West Yorks. Regt.; M.C. 1917; Lieut.-Col.). Married, Nov. 15, 1927, in Nairobi, Dorothy Alice, youngest dau. of James Charles Fidler, of Mapledurham, Oxon. Died June 27, 1932, at Eldoret, Kenya. Twin-brother of Robert H. (1899); brother of Frederick C. (1896). (Marlborough Coll. Reg.; The Times, June 30, 1932.)