Notes
The Roll lists his address as 4 Harris Street.
(CWGC records that Private Thomas Baker Rollings, regimental number 147081, died aged 33 on 28/7/1918 serving in 62nd Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps, and is commemorated on Stone 34B of Soissons Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Charles Rollings of Gretton in Northamptonshire, and the husband of Sarah Frances Rollings of 4 Harris Street, Peterborough. Thomas' birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1885; on the 1891 census he was living with his parents Charles and Mary in Morborne, Huntingdonshire, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at Markfield Lodge in Gretton, Northamptonshire. Thomas' marriage Sarah Frances Steele was registered in Holbeach District in 1908. On the 1911 census he was living at 68 Harris Street with his wife and their son. The Medal Rolls record that Thomas served initially in the Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 205638, then in the Royal Fusiliers under regimental number 68560, before joining the Machine Gun Corps under regimental number 147081. De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour records that he was born on 8/3/1885 at Morbourne (sic) near Peterborough. He enlisted on 1/6/1917 in the 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and served in France and Flanders from October 1917. He then transferred to the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and was wounded at Cambrai on 30/11/1917. Having been invalided back to the UK, he returned to France and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in January 1918. De Ruvigny records that hes was killed in action at Chaumzoy*(sic), south of Rheims on 28/7/1918 and was buried there. He had married Sarah Frances Steele at Holbeach parish church on 28/12/1908; they had three sons. (*De Ruvigny was referring to Chaumuzy, southwest of Reims).