Notes
The Roll lists is address as 49 Pipe Lane. It incorrectly records his regimental number as 61063.
(CWGC records that Private Alfred Bertie Rycraft, regimental number 51063, died aged 29 on 31/7/1917 serving in 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment, and is buried in grave XVI.G.22A at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. They record him as the son of John Shickle Rycraft and Mary Rebecca Rycraft of 49 Pipe Lane, Peterborough. Alfred Bertie Rycraft's birth was registered in Peterborough in 1888. On the 1891 census he was recorded as Bertie, living with his parents John and Mary at 13 Pipe Lane, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was recorded as Bert, living with his parents at 49 Pipe Lane. Soldiers Died in the Great war records that Alfred initially served in the Middlesex Regiment under the regimental number G/86538. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father John was his legatee. Alfred Bertie Rycraft is also commemorated on a family headstone in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see War Memorials Register reference 70100).