Private
FREDERICK LESLIE (F L) TREWELLA

• Private FREDERICK LESLIE TREWELLA's Story

• 	Born 1 September 1888 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
  	Occupation Worked as a Miller (flour mill) prior to enlisting.
  	Enlisted 21 September 1914 in Valcartier, Quebec | Age: 26 years
  	Buried 25 April 1915 - MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL | Age: 26 years

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Interesting Facts

• Son of William and Caroline (nee Hopper) Trewella. His parents immigrated to Canada from Falmouth, Cornwall, England with his three older siblings William, Olive and Jessie in 1886. Fred was born two years later. His younger siblings Violet, Reginald and Clarence were born in 1891, 1896 and 1906 respectively.

  Frederick Leslie Trewella enlisted at Valcartier in September 1914 at the age of 26. Five feet, nine and half inches tall, he was twenty six years old. Pte. Trewella was killed in action 25 April 1915 when his unit was hit by chlorine gas; one of the first large-scale attacks of this nature. From the War Diary of the 8th Battalion, 24-25 April 1915, Grafenstafel: "The trenches were all attacked at night, and all the men in the trenches except the reserves were weak from fumes -  in fact some men had already died from fumes." The 8th battalion suffered heavy casualties from the gas attack and in the Battle of St. Julien which began on 24 April.

  Commemorated on Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Also listed on the Quebec City Chronicle Roll of Honour (1920) and on a Lake of the Woods Milling Company Roll of Honour plaque in Keewatin, ON.

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Fallen Soldiers from Portage La Prairie Manitoba, Canada

• Private
  TREWELLA, FREDERICK LESLIE
  25 April 1915
  MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL
  
• Leading Aircraftman
  MONETTE, LOUIS AMY WALTER
  4 December 1943
  PORTAGE-LA-PRAIRIE (HILLSIDE) CEMETERY
  

Fallen Comrades of the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

• Captain
  HANNAFORD, ALFRED CRAWFORD
  3 October 1918
  BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY
  
• Private
  WASS, CHARLES ALFRED
  1 October 1918
  CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai)
  
• Private
  WAYLING, MILTON
  3 September 1918
  UPTON WOOD CEMETERY
  
• Private
  PENDREIGH, THOMAS
  16 September 1917
  FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
  
• Private
  BRODERICK, ARTHUR
  23 May 1917
  CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY
  
• Private
  CAIE, ALEXANDER
  27 May 1915
  GREENWICH CEMETERY
  
• Private
  SCRIMES, ARTHUR HENRY
  28 September 1918
  CREST CEMETERY
  
• Private
  MCBRIDE, FREDERICK
  3 December 1918
  ROBLIN CEMETERY
  
• Private
  MCCULLOCH, ALEXANDER
  4 September 1916
  VIMY MEMORIAL
  
• Private
  RANKIN, HOWARD WILLIAM
  6 November 1917
  TYNE COT CEMETERY
  
• Private
  NEUMANN, REINHOLD
  4 December 1918
  THALBERG (LUTHERAN) CEMETERY
  
• Private
  GREIG, HERBERT GLEN
  18 May 1915
  VIMY MEMORIAL