Notes
The Roll lists his address as 82 Eastfield Road.
(CWGC records that Private W W Pond, regimental number 47731, died aged 20 on 18/4/1918 serving in 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment, and is buried in grave III.F.Coll 1 at Gorre British and Indian Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Louisa and William Warner Pond of 82 Eastfield Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Peterborough, and that he had formerly served in the Royal Engineers under regimental number 2589. His birth was actually registered in Stamford in 1897. De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour records that he was born in Stamford on 30/5/1897, educated at Deacon's School in Peterborough, and that he joined the Royal Engineers on 18/6/1915 and transferred to the Welsh Regiment on in October 1916. He served in France and Flanders from January 1917 and was killed in action at Givenchy on 18/4/1918. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his parents William and Louisa Pond were his legatees).