Notes
The Roll lists his address as "Late of Wellington Street".
(CWGC records that Private T J Hales, regimental number 42333, died on 4/11/1918 having served in the 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, and is buried in grave IV.A.11 at Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery in Poland. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Peterborough who was living in Whittlesey when he enlisted at Wisbech. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died in Germany as a Prisoner of War, and that his widow Elizabeth was his legatee. On the 1911 census Thomas James Hales had been living at 13 Wellington Street in Peterborough with his parents, Thomas and Sarah Jane Hales. He married Elizabeth Cowling in Huntingdon District in 1917. The International Red Cross archives record that they received an enquiry from Mrs Hales of Slate Barn Drove, Glassmoor, Whittlesey regarding Thomas Hales, who was recorded on the Red Cross file as having been born 20/2/1899 in Peterborough. Their file records that he was taken Prisoner of War (unwounded) on 10/4/1918 at Ploegsteert, and was taken to Friedrichsfeld Camp in Germany).