Notes
The Roll lists Percy's address as 26 Brookdale, Stanground. It records his surname as "Randall", that he served in the Bedfordshire Regiment, and that he died in 1917, none of which is correct; in fact, his surname was Randle, and he died serving in the Suffolk Regiment on 18/8/1916.
(The error re Percy's surname/Regiment evidently arose from the Peterborough newspapers' inaccurate reporting at the time of his death, e.g. on 20/9/1916 the Peterborough Express reported: 'Pte. Percy Randall, Beds. Regt., son of Mr. Randall, of Sandy, who for several years resided at Stanground, and was previously employed by Messrs. Nicholls and Co., of the Falcon Hotel, Peterborough, is officially reported killed. He joined the Army five weeks ago, and went out to France five weeks ago'.
The man alluded to in that report, and on the Roll of Honour, was actually Percy Glenmore Randle, regimental number 27082, who CWGC records as having died aged 31 on 18/8/1916 serving in the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment, and who is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial; they record him as the son of William Henry Randle of 2 Betah Cottages, Church Road, Sandy, Bedfordshire. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Percy Glenmore Randle was a native of Cardiff who enlisted in Peterborough. His birth had been registered as "Percy Glenmore Randle" in 1885 in Cardiff. On the 1891 census he was living with his widowed father William Henry Randle in Glamorgan; on the 1901 census he had been living with his father at the Gresham Inn, High Street, Sandy, Bedfordshire, of which his father was publican. Percy was recorded on the 1911 census working as the boots at the Bell and Oak public house in Market Place, Peterborough. He evidently later took lodgings in nearby Stanground. (The occupiers of 26 Brookdale in Stanground in 1911 and 1921 were George & Elizabeth Brown and their family). The Medal Rolls record that Percy Glenmore Randle served only in the Suffolk Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his legatee was his father William.
Prior to WW1, Percy Glenmore Randle is known to have been living/working in Peterborough, where he enlisted. the day/month of his death tally with that recorded on the Roll; its mistake re his year of death was evidently a simple typo. Percy's father's address in Bedfordshire appears to have caused the misunderstanding in local newspapers and on the Roll of Honour regarding which Regiment he had served in. Despite the inaccuracies on the Roll of Honour, the 'Percy Randall' whose death it commemorates was actually Percy Glenmore Randle).