Notes
The Roll lists his address as 1 St Margaret's Road. It incorrectly states he died on 5/9/1918 in the 9th Essex Regiment, and wrongly states he received the DCM.
(Gilbert Darricotte was never awarded the DCM, and all official documents omit any mention of such an award, including his Army service file [TNA reference: WO 374/17917]. The incorrect attribution of a DCM on the Roll of Honour arose from an erroneous report published in the Peterborough Advertiser on 28/9/1918. Prior to enlisting, Gilbert had taught at Fletton County Secondary School. When its Headmaster was asked to comment on the news of Gilbert's death, he mentioned that two of the School's other Masters were also serving in the Army: Mr Catterall (who was in the Sherwood Foresters), and Mr Rogers (who was a Sergeant in the RFA, and had received the D.C.M.). The Peterborough Standard accurately printed the Headmaster's comments, i.e. that Sergeant Rogers had received the D.C.M.; the Peterborough Advertiser, however, misquoted the Headmaster's comments, and wrongly stated that Gilbert Darricotte had received a D.C.M. That error in the Peterborough Advertiser was subsequently copied into the Peterborough Roll of Honour, and also into Gilbert's entry in the City of Peterborough's World War 1 Book of Remembrance in Peterborough Cathedral. Both this Roll of Honour and that Book of Remembrance therefore wrongly accredit Gilbert Darricotte with a D.C.M.
Although the Roll of Honour states that Gilbert died on 5/9/1918 serving in the 9th Essex, CWGC records that Second Lieutenant G H Darricotte died aged 30 on 6/9/1918 while serving in the Huntingdon Cyclist Battalion, and is buried in grave V.M.7 at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of Jabez & Elizabeth Darricotte of Clayton, Yorkshire, and the husband of Dorothy Darricotte of The Hawthorns, Bredbury, Stockport. Soldiers Died in the Great War and the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects likewise record that he died on 6/9/1918 in the Hunts Cyclists. His Army service file records that, prior to joining the Huntingdon Cyclist Battalion, he had been a Private in the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps under regimental number 10569).