Frederick Trumble

Frederick Hugh Geoffrey Trumble (9 October 1893 – 10 May 1918) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer.

Trumble was born at Brading on the Isle of Wight to Frederick Hugh Geoffrey Trumble (died 1915), of The Old House, Haywards Heath, Sussex, and his wife, Ada Catherine, daughter of George Wood Bayldon, of Wakefield, a paper manufacturer from a family of Yorkshire landowners.

[1][2] He was educated at the Britannia Royal Naval College, entering in September 1908.

[6] He was serving aboard HMS Warwick, the flagship of rear admiral Sir Roger Keyes, during the Second Ostend Raid in May 1918.

[2] He was killed during the raid, when he was shot in the head by an accidental discharge of a Lewis gun.