Notes
The Roll lists his address as 11 Eastgate, and indicates that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It inaccurately states he died on 26/9/1914.
(CWGC records that Private Thomas Salmon, regimental number 8341, died aged 29 on 26/8/1914 serving in 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and is commemorated on Stone 22 of La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Mrs Ellen Salmon of 11 Eastgate, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Eye near Peterborough who enlisted in Peterborough, and that he was killed in action on 26/8/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was born in Eye, enlisted on 13/7/1904, was killed in action on 26/8/1914, left a Will naming his father James as executor, and that his mother Ellen and siblings were his legatees. Thomas' birth was registered in 1885 in Peterborough District. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents James and Ellen at Eastgate, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Thorney. On the 1901 census he was living with his mother Ellen at 5 St John's Street in Peterborough. On the 1911 census Thomas was in China and Hong Kong, serving as a Private in the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; on that census his place of birth was recorded as Eye, Peterborough, which suggests that was the information he gave the Army when he enlisted. On the 1911 census his mother Ellen was living at 11 Eastgate, Peterborough. When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 3/10/1914 he was stated to be the first man from Peterborough to have died in the War, and that he had died on his 30th birthday: August 26th. He was stated to have fought in the Boer War, where he had contracted enteric fever).