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Arthur Trotman was born on 16 January 1874 and was a native of Demond Road, Eastbourne. A local postman by trade, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 3 August 1914 and then served with the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division at Antwerp from 22 August 1914.
Transferred to Gallipoli, Trotman was severely wounded by gunshot to the left foot and thigh around 20 May 1915.
Having recovered from those wounds, he was killed in action when the Barrister was torpedoed off the Chicken Rock, Isle of Man on 19 September 1918.
He is commemorated upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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