Notes
The Roll lists his address as 40 Windmill Street. It records his date of death as 25/9/1915, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest James Gathercole, regimental number 14718, died aged 21 on 27/9/1915 while serving in the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Loos Memorial in France. They record him as the son of James Gathercole of 40 Windmill Street, Peterborough, and that he had enlisted in September 1914. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Ernest died on 27/9/1915, having been born in March, Cambridgeshire and enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died "on or since 27/9/1915" and that his death was presumed; his father James was his legatee).