Notes
The Roll lists his address as Gladstone Street. It wrongly states he died on 12/7/1918.
(CWGC records that Able Seaman A F L Poyser, service number J11163 (Ch), died on 3/7/1918 serving on HMS Attentive II, and that he is buried near the south-east border of Paston All Saints Churchyard (Peterborough. The birth of "Alfred Francis L Poyser" was registered in the Mansfield District of Nottinghamshire in 1893. On the 1901 census he was recorded as "Leslie", living with his parents Frank and (Frederica) Esther Poyser at 152 New Houghton, Pleasley, Derbyshire. On the 1911 census he was a Boy 2nd Class, serving in the Royal Navy Seaman Branch on HMS Ganges at Harwich; his parents were living at 328 New Houghton, Mansfield on that census. The National Archives Admiralty Records (ADM 242; Piece 009) state that "Albert Francis Leslie Poyser" of HMS P64 was born 21/4/1893 at Mansfield, and that he died on 3/7/1918 and was buried in Paston Churchyard, Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough; his next of kin was his mother Esther of 328 Devonshire Street, New Houghton, near Mansfield. The National Archives record ADM 104;Piece 125 records that "Albert Francis Leslie Poyser" accidentally drowned on 3/7/1918 on HMS P64, which was patrol boat. When Alfred's death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 20/7/1918, he was reported to be the nephew of Mr & Mrs F Leeding of Gladstone Street, with whom it was stated he had lived "for many years". He was reported to have accidentally drowned in the River Thames, having formerly participated in the Battle of Jutland and "in the great naval raid on Zeebrugge").