Notes
The Roll lists his address as 11 Star Road, and that he died at home from TB contracted while serving on HMS Theban. It misrecords his date of death as 15/11/1919; he actually died on 15/11/1918.
(CWGC records that Deck Hand George Victor Bellairs, service number 1309, died aged 25 on 15/11/1918. They originally listed him in their UK Book of Remembrance in Berkshire; having informed them of his gravesite, they now accurate record him as buried in grave 1655 in Broadway Cemetery. Peterborough. George's Navy service record, held by The National Archives under reference BT/377/7/47786, records his service number as DA/1309, and that he was born in Peterborough on 22/6/1893, the son of John & Louise Bellairs; having enlisted on 3/9/1914, he served on HMHT Aberdeen from 5/10/1914; HMS Halcyon from 6/10/1914; HMS Ganges from 12/10/1914; HMS Zaria from 4/11/1914; HMS Theban from 25/8/1916; and on HMS Pekin from 24/4/1917. He was invalided out on 18/6/1917 due to tuberculosis, awarded a pension from 18/6/1917, and a disability pension from 8/9/1917, and died on 15/11/1918, at which time his father's address was 11 Star Road, Peterborough. George's death aged 25 was registered in the Peterborough District in December 1918; burial records state that he died on 15/11/1918 and was interred on 21/11/1918 in Block 1, Plot 1655 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough).