Notes
The Roll lists his address as 20 Whalley Street.
(CWGC records that Private J Larner, regimental number 89556, died on 17/1/1918 serving in 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and is buried in grave II.E.3 at Achiet le Grand Communal Cemetery Extension in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records James Larner as a native of Wisbech who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Northampton. James Larner's birth had been registered in Wisbech in 1898. His Army service file records that he was living at 20 Whalley Street when he was called up on 5/3/1917; he transferred to the 30th Training Battalion on 13/4/1917. He landed in France on 3/1/1918, and was transferred to the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 4/1/1918, joining his unit in the field on 8/1/1918. Having been wounded in action on 10/1/1918, he was admitted the following day to 49 Casualty Clearing Station with gunshot wounds, from which he died on 17/1/1918. His next of kin were recorded in his Army file as his father John and mother Mary Elizabeth Lane of 20 Whalley Street).