Sergeant Edward Trinder
Number: 11004
Company: 60th (Belfast) Company, 17th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 20 February 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 24 years (born 30 July 1873 in Fasagh, Aghadown, County Cork)
Trade or calling: Royal Irish Constabulary
Place of birth: In the Parish of Aghadown, in or near the Town of Skibbereen, in the County of Cork
Address: Skibbereen
Family: Brother Thomas Trinder, Whitehall, Church Cross, Skibbereen; mother Eliza Trinder (nee Copithorne), of Fasagh, Aghadown. Father Edward Trinder (dec.), farmer.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 11 3/4". Complexion fair, eyes light blue, hair fair.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 6 April 1900
Date home: __
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Rhodesia, 1901 clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 10 June 1901
Place: South Africa
Reason for discharge: At own request
Trinder joined the Royal Irish Constabulary on 22 January 1896 (No.57490). He gave his occupation as farmer. He served at Wexford, Waterford and Belfast before resigning to enlist in the Imperial Yeomanry.
Following his discharge he remained in South Africa. On 26 April 1911 he married Milina Dickie in St. Aidan's Church, Yeoville, Johannesburg.
On 1 March 1916 he enlisted at Dublin in the Army Service Corps (Forage Department) (No. F/25055) with the rank of acting Staff Sergeant. He stated he had previous military service in the Imperial Yeomanry, Imperial Light Horse, and Union Defence Force. He remained on home service until his discharge at Dublin on 21 February 1918 "for the purpose of taking up employment in civil life". He gave his occupation as farmer, and his intended place of residence as Jackalsfontein, Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His military Character was recorded as 'very good'.
Trinder died in Pietersburg, South Africa, on 17 January 1965.
"Group of Belfast R.I.C. ... on the occasion of a Presentation to Corporal Trinder, Imperial Yeomanry." (Constabulary Gazette, 14 April 1900)
First image from the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 1 September 1900. Second image sourced from Ancestry.com Public Member Trees - contributor 'SBothma'.
This page last updated 6 March 2025.