Notes
The Roll lists his address as GNR Refreshment Rooms, Peterborough. It records his forename as "Bertie" and his date of death as 11/3/1915, both of which differ from official records.
(CWGC record that Bert Murfitt, regimental number 16048, died aged 19 on 14/3/1915 serving in 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. They record him as the son of John Robert and Louisa Murfitt of Crooked Chimney, Outwell, Wisbech. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Bert was a native of Littleport. His birth in Littleport was registered as "Bert Calvert Murfitt" in the Ely District in 1895; he was baptised as such on 26/5/1895 at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Ely. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents John and Louisa in Victoria Street, Littleport. On the 1911 census he was living at the GNR Hotel in Peterborough, working in the refreshment rooms. The Medal Rolls record that he was sent to France on 28/12/1914. and was killed in action on 14/3/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father John was his legatee).