Notes
The Roll listed his address as 23 High Street, Old Fletton. It misspelt his surname as "Essam".
(CWGC records that Gunner Thomas William Essom, regimental number 111668, died aged 24 on 18/12/1917 while serving in 24th Company, H Battalion of the Tank Corps, and is buried in grave I.A.13 at Etretat Churchyard Extension in France. They record him as the son of Smith & Kate Essom of 23 High Street, Stanground, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise records him as Thomas William Essom, and that he had formerly served in the Royal Field Artillery under regimental number 170998. His surname is also recorded as Essom in the Medal Rolls, and in the 1918 Probate Index. His birth was registered in Peterborough as Thomas William Essom in 1893. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Kate was his legatee).