AUBREY, TREVOR
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Lance Corporal
3910777
24/09/1944
26
The Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
I. C. 10.
To know him was to love him
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Son of Trevor and Katie Aubrey; husband of Gladys Carson Aubrey, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Trevor was born 22 november 1917, Morriston, Swansea. He died during the battle of Voorheide, Belgium and was initially buried there.
“‘My father, who was Trevor’s brother Dave, and in the RAF, said that the last time he saw his brother was on the railway station platform in Swansea, on a day that one brother was leaving home after leave, and the other was arriving home on leave.
Trevor’s teenage sister, Edna, remembered being at the cinema at the time of one of the bombing raids on Swansea, and her two brothers, Trevor and Dave went to find her, and they all ran back home during the bombing.”‘
From the service records of Trevor Aubrey, the following account can be reconstructed.
Trevor Aubrey was born on 22 November 1917 in Swansea, Glamorgan. He enlisted in the British Army on 15 January 1940 and joined the South Wales Borderers. On 18 October 1941 he was transferred to the Monmouthshire Regiment.
He married Gladys Carson Thompson on 1 February 1944 in Sharhill, Antrim. The couple had no children.
Trevor Aubrey embarked for service in North West Europe on 25 June 1944.
According to his service records, he was 5 feet 3⅞ inches tall, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
Trevor Aubrey was killed in action on 24 September 1944.
Trevor’s brother David in his R.A.F. uniform.
Trevor and Gladys Aubrey wedding l-r unknown, Trevor Aubrey, Katie Aubrey, Trevor, Gladys 1941-1944
Trevor Aubrey 1938
Initial gravesite at Voorheide.