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The official city list of the Peterborough war dead of World War Two is displayed in Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, England, and it records in book form the deaths of one hundred and seventy-nine citizens who lost their lives during that war, on land at sea and in the air.
While carrying out my research into these men I have managed to trace another one hundred and nine local people who had been omitted from the original list.
Peterborough is unusual in that the city does not have a war memorial which bears the names of the city dead. Most towns and cities raised war memorials after the First World War, and names were added to those already recorded at the end of the Second World War.
What the city lacks is a memorial listing all the people from the city who were killed in both wars, but after many letters and articles published in the local press on the matter, still nothing has happened.
This website therefore is my attempt to record these people in full on a memorial for all to see.
I am proud to be able to record the names of these forgotten souls on what is now, the first ever, complete Peterborough Roll of Honour.
The First World War Roll of Honour can be found elsewhere on this site.
Special thanks to Steven Turner for providing the cemetery and grave photographs on the Army pages.
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