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The Roll lists his address as 15 Alma Road, and states that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal, and had also served in the South African War.
(CWGC records that Squadron Serjeant Major William Frederick Westcombe, regimental number 4515, died aged 32 on 29/9/1914 serving in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, and is buried in grave B.2 at Longuval Communal Cemetery in France. They record him as the husband of Dora Westcombe of 15 Alma Road, Peterborough.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records William as a native of Walworth, Surrey who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted in London. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he enlisted on 11/11/1899, and that he left a Will in favour of his widow, Dora Rebecca.
The marriage of William Frederick Westcombe (aged 28, soldier, of 140 Southampton Street, son of William) to Dora Rebecca Zidburghe (aged 24, of 142 Southampton Street, daughter of Samuel Zidburghe) was recorded in the Marriage register of St Giles' Church, Camberwell, Southwark on 19/7/1909. On the 1911 census William was at Lydd Camp in Kent with the 9th Lancers; his wife Dora (a native of Peterborough) was lodging at 7 Sturry Road Cottages in Canterbury with their son. The birth of William Frederick S Westcombe was registered in Southwark District in 1881).