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The Roll lists his address as 43 Queen's Road, Old Fletton, and states that he had also served in South Africa. It misrecords his date of death as 12/3/1915; he actually died on 10/3/1915.
(CWGC records that Private William Weldon, regimental number 3/7779, died on 10/3/1915 serving in 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records William as a native of Farcet who was living in Fletton when he enlisted in Huntingdon. The Medal Rolls recorded that he was posted overseas on 8/11/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 10/3/1915, and that his widow Florence was his legatee.
On the 1911 census he was recorded as "Willie Weldon", living with his wife Florence and their son at 19 Henry Street, Peterborough; he gave his age as 36 and stated he had been born in Farcet. The marriage of William Weldon to Florence had been registered in Peterborough District in 1903. On the 1891 census Willie Weldon had been living with his widowed mother Martha at The Barracks, Milky Water Drove in Farcet. On the 1881 census he had been living with his parents Martha and Edward at the same address. His birth had been registered as "Willie Weldon" in the Peterborough District in 1875).