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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Tramore
• Land Waterford, Ireland
• Family Son of Robert William and Ella Pettigrew, of Penarth, Cardiff
• Education Monkton Combe School, Bath, where he was member of O.T.C.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 15 September 1914, Monkton Combe School, United Kingdom (Public Schools Brigade)
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 17th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
• Attached or transferred from 14th - Bn. - Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
• Other data related to military career To France November 1915 with the 19th Royal Fusiliers; severely wounded at Thiepval (Battle of the Somme), 7th Oct., 1916.; Augustus 1916 accepted for Royal Flying Corps

Death

• Wounded 22 October, between Hooge and Gheluvelt; attack on German pill-boxes
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n° 10 CCS
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - B - 16A

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