Notes
The Roll lists his address as 1 Fitzwilliam Yard, City Road, and indicates that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It inaccurately states he died on 29/9/1914.
(CWGC records that Gunner John William Saddington, regimental number 74541, died on 20/9/1914 serving in 114th Battery, 25th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and is commemorated on Stone 2A of La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Market Deeping who enlisted in Northampton, and that he died on 20/9/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he enlisted on 11/10/1913, that he died on 20/9/1914, and that his mother Elizabeth and his sisters were his legatees. John William Saddington's birth was registered in Bourne District in 1894. On the 1901 census he was living with his mother Elizabeth at Towngate in Market Deeping. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents Christopher and Elizabeth at 63 Rodgers Street, Peterborough).