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The Roll lists his address as 4 Richmond Row, Eastgate, and mentions he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It states he died on 27/11/1918, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private George Robert Lawrence, regimental number 9230, died aged 29 on 29/11/1914 serving in 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.K.42 at Merville Communal Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Charles & Elizabeth Lawrence of Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects recorded that "Robert Lawrence" died on 29/11/1914, and that his sister Lizzie Mayes was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise recorded him as Robert Lawrence, a native of St John's parish, Peterborough. His birth was registered in Peterborough in the first quarter on 1884 as George Robert Lawrence; he was baptised under that name at St John's Church in Peterborough on 18/3/1884 as the son of Charles and Elizabeth. He was recorded as George Lawrence on the 1891 census, living with his parents at 12 Bright Street, Peterborough. He was recorded as "Robert Lawrence" on the 1911 census, serving with the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in Malta).