Notes
The Roll lists his address as Gladstone Street.
(CWGC records that Sapper George William Pestell, regimental number 49292, died on 12/12/1915 serving in 71st Field Company of the Royal Engineers, and is commemorated on Helles Memorial in Turkey. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Peterborough who died at sea on 12/12/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died aboard Hospital Ship Karapara, and that his widow Daisy H Pestell was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he was posted to the Egyptian Theatre on 30/6/1915. On the 1911 census George had been aged 22, living with his younger brother and their parents Edmund and Annie Pestell at 66 Walpole Street, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Peakirk. (His birth had been registered in Peterborough District in 1888; his baptism as the son of Edmund and Annie Maria Pestell was recorded in the baptism register at Peakirk on 5/8/1888). His marriage to Daisy H Gaunt was registered in Guildford District in 1915).