Notes
The Roll lists his address as 475 Gladstone Street, stating he died on an unspecified date, serving on HM Submarine E5.
(CWGC's Casualty Register records that Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Cecil Frank Rice, service number M/7200, died aged 28 on 11/3/1916 serving in the Royal Navy aboard HM Submarine E5 ("Killed in loss of vessel on North Sea"), and is commemorated on Panel 17 of Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent. They record him as the son of William and Mary Maria Rice of Peterborough and the husband of Sarah Elizabeth Rice of 5 Trafalgar Terrace, North Fields, Stamford, Lincolnshire. (The Commission's online database currently records that he died on HM Submarine E30; they have now been alerted to the typo). The birth of Cecil Frank Rice was registered in the Peterborough District in 1888. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents William and Mary at 3 Lincoln Road in Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at Bovington House in Gladstone Street, Peterborough. Cecil's marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Clarkson was registered in the Peterborough District in 1908. On the 1911 census he was working as a mechanic (engine fitter), living with Sarah at 33 King's Road at North Fields in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The National Archives Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services (Ref ADM 188; Piece 1032) record that Cecil was born on 26/2/1888 in Peterborough. He enlisted on 15/1/1914, serving first on HMS Vivid. His final posting was recorded as HMS Dolphin Section (the shore-based unit of the Submarine service), in which he served from 5/12/1915 until his death. His service file records that he was "Lost in Submarine E5" on 11/3/1916).