Notes
The Roll lists his address as 1 Old Westwood Row. It states he died serving in the Hunts Cyclists, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private G. Waite, regimental number 267485, died aged 24 on 23/8/1916 serving in 1st/1st Bucks Battalion of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, and is now buried in grave VI.B.6 at Mill Road, Cemetery in Thiepval, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of William and Mary Ann Waite of 1 Old Westwood Row, Westwood Street, Peterborough.
The Medal Rolls record that George 's original regimental number in the Oxford & Bucks Regiment was 20700, but later changed to 267485. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he had formerly served in the Bedfordshire Regiment under regimental number 275.
The birth of George William Waite was registered in Peterborough in 1892. His baptism on 15/11/1894, as the son of William and Mary Ann, was recorded in the Baptism register at St Mark's Church in Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 154 Cromwell Road, Peterborough).