Notes
The Roll lists his address as 26 Eastgate. It misspelt his forename as 'Burtie', and his surname is recorded differently in some other records.
(CWGC records that Private B Berresford, regimental number 41792, died on 29/4/1918 serving in the 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, and that he is buried in grave II.A.8 at Arneke British Cemetery in France; they record him as the husband of A E Berresford of 26 Eastgate, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as Bertie Beresford, and that he was a native of Peterborough who had enlisted at Melton Mowbray in the Leicestershire Regiment (regimental number 11753), before transferring to the North Staffordshire Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects records him as Bertie Berrisford, and that he died of wounds at 44 Casualty Clearing Station in Belgium; his widow Annie E Berrisford was his legatee. His Army Service file records him as Bertie Berrisford, recording that he enlisted 31/8/1914, and served under regimental number 11753 in the Leicestershire Regiment until 29/1/1918; he was wounded (shell-shock) on 18/7/1916, and again on 25/9/1916; he was gassed in November 1916, and was sent back to England, but returned to France on 26/3/1918, where he was posted to the North Staffordshire Regiment under regimental number 41792; he died from wounds on 29/4/1918. His birth in Woodston in 1899 had been registered as 'Bertie Berrisford'. On the 1911 census, he was recorded as being 20 years old, living with his widowed mother Eliza at 98 Palmerston Road, Woodston Peterborough and working as a railway labourer. His marriage to Annie E Fovargue was registered in the Peterborough District in 1918).