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Robert Pegg

Details

Forename Robert
Surname Pegg
Middle Name Henry
Memorial Leigh Cenotaph
Age 21
Address 695 Leigh Road
Parents' Address As above
Township Leigh
Rank Gunner
Occupation or place of work Assistant in Co-op Boot Dept
Regiment Royal Field Artillery 74th/D Bde
Day of Death 21
Month of Death May
Year of Death 1918
Cause of Death Died of wounds
Place of Burial Leigh Cemetery
Regiment Number 4919
Name of War First World War
Location
Additional Information Son of Thomas Henry and Annie. Brother James also killed. He was invalided from Salonika and then was injured in France. Taken ill at home and died after an operation at Lord Derby Hospital, Winwick
CWGC, Ancestry, LJ 24/8/18