Notes
The Roll lists his address as 8 St Martin's Street. It mistakenly records his regimental number as 14235; it states his date of death as 5/7/1916, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest Richardson, regimental number 14253, died aged 23 on 6/7/1916 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave V.F.61 at Bethune Town Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Mr Leeds Richardson of 8 St Martin's Street, Millfield, Peterborough. Ernest's birth was registered in Peterborough in 1893. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Leeds and Elizabeth Richardson at 86 St Martin's Street, Peterborough.On the 1911 census they were living at 88 Dogsthorpe Road, Peterborough; his mother died in 1915. His Medal Index Card records that Ernest went to France on 18/3/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 6/7/1916, and that his father was his legatee. Ernest is commemorated on his mother's headstone in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough - see War Memorials Register ref 70149).