Private George Pegg

Army Number: 20087

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John and Emma Pegg, of 112, Porter Road, Derby. Went to France on 31st August 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 26, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.