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The Roll lists his address as 85 Rogers Street, and records that he was entitled to the Mons Star medal. It misrecorded his surname as Stallebrass; it was actually Stallerbrass.
(CWGC records that Serjeant W Stallerbrass, regimental number 8637, died on 11/11/1915 serving in 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, and is buried in grave II.G.1 at Hill 10 Cemetery in Turkey. Soldiers Died in the Great War records William Stallerbrass as a native of Whittlesey who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Bury St Edmunds. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Martha was his legatee. His Medal Index Card records that he was first posted overseas on 14/11/1914. The birth of William Stallerbrass was registered in Whittlesey in 1887. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents William and Lucy at 85 Rogers Street, Peterborough, and was recorded as being in the Army. His marriage to Martha A Smith was registered in Peterborough in 1915. When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 8/12/1915 he was reported to have been serving in the Army for 7 years, 5 of them in Egypt and 2 at home. He was stated to have been wounded at Mons and returned to England, where he had married on 7/3/1915. He had later been posted to the Dardanelles).