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The Roll lists his address as 199 High Street, Old Fletton, stating he died on an unspecified date in November 1917.
(CWGC records that Private Thomas Alfred Loach, 25106, died aged 36 on 21/11/1917, serving in the 2nd/6th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, and is commemorated on Cambrai Memorial in France. They record him as the son of John and Sarah Loach of Cropwell Bishop, Nottingham, and the husband of Edna Loach of 9 Leng Road, Newton Heath, Manchester. Thomas' birth was registered in Nottinghamshire in 1881. On the 1881 census he was 4 months old, living with his parents John and Sarah at Main Street, Cropwell Butler. On the 1891 and 1901 census the family was living at Cropwell Bishop. On the 1911 census Thomas was working for the Prudential Insurance Company, and was lodging at 3 Sparth Road, Newton Heath in Manchester, which was his address on the Marriage register when he married Edna Worthington on 28/11/1914 at Red Hall Methodist Chapel in Audenshaw. Thomas' Army file records that he was aged 35 and living at 9 Leng Road in Newton Heath, Manchester when he enlisted on 6/12/1915. His file does not record any address for him or his relatives in Old Fletton, or in the Peterborough area. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects stated that his widow Edna was his legatee).