Nicholas John Trevorrow
1893 to 1926aged 33
Tin miner, Levant; Sapper, 251st Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers; then carrier
- Born
- 19 May 1893, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 2 November 1926, St Just in Penwith
Named for his grandfather, born four months after that grandfather came up out of Wheal Owles. He was a tin miner, so the army made him a tunneller, and he spent three years under the Cuinchy and Givenchy sectors digging towards German galleries in the dark and listening for men doing the same thing back. He came home in 1919 without a scratch on him and was on the Levant man-engine on 20 October 1919 when the rod broke. He got off at the 12-fathom level. Thirty one men did not get off at all. His pelvis and left leg were rebuilt badly and he never worked underground again. He carried goods between St Just and Penzance with a horse and cart for seven years and died of the chest he had brought back from France.
Accomplishments
- Served with 251st Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers1917
The company was formed at Hayle from among others Cornish tin miners, took over the Cuinchy, Cambrin and Auchy sector near Loos in October 1915, and on 10 August 1917 fired the last British deep mine of the war near Givenchy-en-Gohelle. He was with the company when it did.
- Won the under-twelve-stone at the St Just Feast wrestling1913
In 1913, aged twenty.
- Went back up the hill the morning after Levant1919
He got off the man-engine at the 12-fathom level on 20 October 1919 with a broken pelvis and a shattered left leg. Thirty one men were killed and sixteen injured. He was back on the hill the next morning helping carry men out.
