Notes
The Roll lists his address as 8 South Street, Stanground.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Charles William Rippon, regimental number 17394, died aged 35 on 12/8/1916 serving in 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave III.N.3 at Vermelles British Cemetery in France. They record him as the eldest son of John and Eliza Rippon of 8 South Street, Stanground, Peterborough. (The birth of Charles William B Rippon was registered in Peterborough in 1881. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents John and Fanny E Rippon at 2 Eyres Yard in Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with them at 1 Broadway, Farcet, Huntingdonshire. His marriage to Elizabeth Ward was registered in Peterborough District in 1907. On the 1911 census he was living at 7 Broadway, Farcet with his wife Elizabeth with their own 2 children and 2 children from Elizabeth's 1st Marriage; William's parents were living in South Street, Stanground on that census. The Army registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Charles Rippon was killed in action on 12/8/1916, and that his widow Elizabeth was his legatee).