Photos: Frederick TRENDALL

As requested here are two more pictures of Frederick TRENDALL (1890-1940).

Fig 1 Frederick TRENDALL 1890-1940 in India

Fig 1 shows Frederick TRENDALL in India early in the 1920s.  Note the simple backdrop and palm like plant.  He wears his medal ribbons from the Great War and has sergeant's chevrons on his sleeves.  He does look young in this picture - he would have been around 30 years old.  I will find the original picture to look for any evidence of where it was taken.

Fig 2 Frederick TRENDALL 1890-1940 seated front row.

This photograph is likely to be from the late 1920s or even the early 30s.  This looks like an amateur snapshot and the composition is pretty poor.  Note the large foreground, the subject finishing a fag and lots of ongoing chatter.  It is a hockey team. FT is seated in the front row 3rd from left.  He looks much older than Fig 1, but it is a poor photo.  The identification was handed down although I can see the family resemblance and in this picture he does look like his Father (Thomas TRENDALL 1855-1936).  Note the hockey sticks and pith helmets.  Depending on the date this picture could have been taken in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) which was one of the postings he had in the later 1920s.  I have cropped the photograph to give a close up.

Fig 3: Cropped and zoomed from Fig 2

Together with the picture posted in the VE Day Blog these are the only images I have of my Grandfather Frederick TRENDALL 1890-1940.  There must be more.  What happened to any photographs or papers held by his wife Nellie Dorothea TRENDALL (PARROCK 1893-1970) or his daughter Irene TRENDALL (later BRUESCH and ADRAGNA 1921-2012)?  Both died in the USA and attempts to contact Irene (Aunt Rene) before she died were unsuccessful.  It is a slightly melancholy thought  that I do not know anybody still alive who knew Frederick TRENDALL. 

                                                                Fugit inreparabile tempus.

13 May 2020