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The Roll lists his address as Fern Dale, Fengate.
(CWGC records that Private Alfred John Rollings, regimental number F/2955, died on 28/4/1917 serving in 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 7 of Arras Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Alfred was a native of Islington who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted in Northampton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father Thomas B and brother Walter W Rollings were his legatees. Alfred John Rollings' birth was registered in Islington District in 1881. On the 1881 census he was 4 months old, living with his parents Thomas and Winifred at 3 Moreland Street in Islington; the enumerator misrecorded their surname as "Rawlings". On the 1891 census Alfred was living with his parents Winifred S and Thomas Byfield Rollings at Wellington Lane in Peterborough. Alfred's mother died in 1897; his father later married Jane Martha Thompson on 19/9/1899 at St Mary's Church in Peterborough. Alfred's Army service file records that he was aged 35, living at Ferndale in Fengate, Peterborough and working as a hay trusser when he enlisted on 3/5/1916. He went to France on 27/11/1916, He gave his next of kin as his father Thomas Byfield Rollings of Ferndale, Fengate, Peterborough. On 28/4/1917 Alfred was posted as missing in action, and was later presumed to have died on that date).