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The Roll lists his address as 197 High Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough. It states he was killed in action in France, but does not record the date.
(CWGC records that Private Herbert Tweed Pettit, regimental number 43406, died on 8/10/1917 serving in 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private Herbert Tweed Pettit was a native of Great Abington who was living in Old Fletton, Peterborough when he enlisted in Huntingdon; it also records that he had served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 813 before joining the Bedfordshire Regiment. The Medal Rolls record likewise. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that was killed in action on 8/10/1917 and that his mother Maria and brother George were his legatees. Herbert Tweed Pettit's birth had been registered in Linton District in Cambridgeshire in 1880. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents Robert and Maria in Great Abington, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1911 census he was living with his widowed mother at 135 High Street, Fletton, Peterborough. His marriage to Lily E Brittliff on 19/7/1916 at Fletton was registered in the Peterborough District).