PERTENHALL,
ST. PETER'S CHURCH - War Memorial
World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2001 Brenda Asplin
with additional information by Lynda Smith
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There
are two memorials in the Church.
A stone plaque and a framed hand-written and illustrated Roll of Honour.

Pertenhall World War 1 Plaque
Photographs
Copyright © Brenda Asplin 2001
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Pertenhall Roll of Honour
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Plaque
IN
GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
RONALD ALFRED DAY
ERNEST JAMES PEDLEY
CHARLES EDWARD WAGSTAFF
Who
gave their lives for King and
Country and Friends
1914 - 1918
ROLL
OF HONOUR
In
proud and grateful memory
of the men from Pertenhall who
gave their lives for
their King and Country
and Friends
1914 - 1918
DAY
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Ronald
Alfred
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Gunner 81481.
162nd Siege Battery, Royal
Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds at Aubigney,
France 28th May 1917. (Tuesday 8th May 1917
on CWGC & Soldiers Died CD). Age 21. Born and lived Pertenhall.
Enlisted Kimbolton. Son of Alfred & Louisa Day of Pertenhall,
St. Neots, Hunts. Commemorated on Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension,
Pas-de-Calais, France. Ref. II.H.35
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PEDLEY
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Ernest
James
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Pte.
52727. “A” Company 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers.
(Formerly 37247 98th T.R.) Killed in action at Ypres,
Belgium Friday 15 June 1917. Age 30. Born Pertenhall. Lived Stoneley. (?)
Enlisted Kimbolton. Son of Arthur & Elizabeth Pedley of Gt.
Staughton, St. Neots. Husband of Daisy Braybrook (formerly Pedley)
of Pertenhall, St. Neots. Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. Panel 6 & 8.
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WAGSTAFF
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Charles
Edward
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Rifleman
551266. (3841 on CD) 16th Battalion London Regiment (Queen’s
Westminster Rifles.) Killed in action at Gommecourt, France on Saturday
1 July 1916 age 22 (21 on CWGC). Born St. Neots. Lived Chigwell
Row. Enlisted Westminster. Son of John & Harriet Wagstaff
of Pertenhall, Bedfordshire. Commemorated on Gommecourt British Cemetery
No.2, Hebuterne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Ref. II.E.27.
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Greater
love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.
14 July 2001
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