Name
William George Petchey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23453
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
William George Petchey (G Petchey on the war memorial) was born in 1894, the son of James and Elizabeth of Church End, Albury. In 1901 his father was an agricultural worker. In 1911 he is still at home with his parents and working as a stockman.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the Bedfordshire Regt, but was transferred to the North Lancashires, on whose Roll of Honour he appears.
Additional Information
North Lancashire Regt records
Pat Bird
Jonty Wild
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
