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The Roll lists his address as The Hollies, Alderman's Drive. It misrecords that he died serving in the 63rd Royal Naval Division.
(CWGC records that Lieutenant B J Pelmore died aged 31 on 18/7/1917 serving in 247th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, and is buried in grave I.D.10 at Roclincourt Military Cemetery in France. They record him as the husband of H G Pelmore of The Hollies, Alderman's Drive in Peterborough. He was born in Norwood as Bernhard Julius Pfleiderer on 4/6/1886. On the 1911 census he had been recorded under that name, working as an engineer and living as a boarder at 85 Clifton Road, Rugby; on that Census he was stated to be a British subject whose place of birth was Norwood, London. On the 1901 census he had been living with his mother Anna Pfleiderer at Hill Crest, Wellington, Shropshire. On the 1891 census he had been living with his parents Paul and Anna Pfleiderer at Throssel House in Selsdon Road, Norwood, Lambeth, London; both his parents were German natives. His father Paul Adolph Pfleiderer became a naturalised British Citizen on 29/1/1895, swearing his Oath of Allegiance on 5/2/1895. Bernard J Pfleiderer married Gertrude H Ihlee in 1914; their marriage was registered in Peterborough. The Royal Marines Registers of Service at The National Archives record that he enlisted on 26/9/1914 in the Royal Marines Divisional Engineers as "Bernard Julius Pfleiderer", giving his date of birth as 4/6/1886. According to the Jack Clegg Memorial Database of Royal Naval Division Casualties, Bernard changed his name by Deed Poll from Pfleiderer to Pelham on 23/10/1914. On 7/5/1915 his commission as Temporary Second Lieutenant from 30/4/1915 was published in the London Gazette under the name "Bernard Julius Pelham". His appointment as Temporary Lieutenant from 2/6/1915 was published in the London Gazette on 15/6/1915 as "Bernard Julius Pelham". On 31/12/1915 the London Gazette published his change of name by Deed Poll to "Bernard Julius Pelmore", effective from 29/12/1915, stating he had been formerly known under the surname Pelham. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as Bernard Julius Pelmore, who died on 18/7/1917 serving in 247th Field Company of the Royal Engineers. His Medal Index Card records him as Bernard Julius Pelmore of the Royal Engineers. Bernard Julius Pelmore's address for Probate was Westwood Works, Peterborough (of which he had been a Director); Probate was granted to his widow Gertrude Helen Pelmore and his brothers Rudolph Allbright and Owen Harold Pelmore. Bernard's Army service file is held at The National Archives under the surname Pelmore: ref WO 339/104779).