Notes
The Roll lists his address as the Coach & Horses, Eastgate. It states that he died while a Prisoner of War in Germany; according to official records, he actually died in Belgium.
(CWGC records that Private Miles E Belson of the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 13738, died on 19/7/1917, and is now buried in grave IV.F.11 at Larchwood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery in Belgium, having been reinterred after the War; they record that he was originally buried in grave 278 in Bruges Town Cemetery, among German graves. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Miles died in Bruges while a Prisoner of War, and that his widow Agnes was his legatee. On the 1911 census Miles, aged 30, was living with his wife and three children in Goodyer's Yard, Narrow Street in Peterborough; he gave his birth place as Heacham, Norfolk. The Marriage Register of St John's Church in Peterborough records that Miles Edward Belson married Agnes Wilmot on 31/7/1904; both were living in Goodyer's Yard at the time).