Name
Roy Petrie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2171
London Regiment *1
1st/14th (County of London) Bn.
'E' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, St Saviour's Church Memorial, St Albans, Monken Hadley Memorial
Pre War
Address given as Hall Place Gardens, St Albans.
Some records suggest that Roy was the son of Alfred and Eliza King, of 42, Warwick Rd., St. Albans, Herts. CWGC record him as the son of the late Douglas Petrie, possibly Eliza remarried & Roy adopted by stepfather?
Wartime Service
CWGC has Lance Corporal, DoD as 13/11/1914
There is a note about Petrie which suggests he was shot by a sniper from Clem.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish).
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, David Harbott
