Notes
The Roll lists his address as 42 Tower Street. (It also records the death of his brother James). It records that George died on 9/2/1916, which differs from some official records.
(CWGC records that Corporal George Parrott, regimental number 14906, died aged 22 on 10/2/1916 serving in 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Eliza and John Thomas Edward Parrott of 42 Tower Street, New Fletton, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Yaxley who enlisted in Peterborough, and that he died on 10/2/1916. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died "9-10.2.1916", and that his father John T E Parrott was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he was sent to France on 1/9/1915, and that he died on 9/2/1916. On 19/2/1916 the Peterborough Advertiser announced his death, quoting from a letter written by Captain Russell Gurney, dated 10/2/1916, in which he had written that George had been "killed last night whilst in charge of a working party. He was with a party in the front line trench when a shell burst near him and killed him". The Captain's letter stated that George "will be buried near Ypres, and I shall see that a cross is put over his grave". George's birth was registered in the Peterborough District in 1893. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 42 Tower Street, New Fletton; his place of birth was given as Yaxley).