Notes
The Roll lists his address as 118 Gladstone Street. It wrongly records that he died on 6/12/1916; he actually died a year earlier.
(CWGC records that Private A Savage, regimental number 12402, died on 6/12/1915 serving in the 7th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, and is commemorated on Menin Road North Memorial 33 in Menin Road South Military Cemetery in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Peterborough who enlisted in Sheffield. , and that he died of wounds on 6/12/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action of 6/12/1915, and that his mother Kate was his legatee. Arthur's Army service file records that he was aged 30 when he enlisted on 30/8/1914 at Sheffield, that he served in the UK until he was sent to France on 13/7/1915, and that he "died of wounds received in action" on 6/12/1915 in France. His mother Kate, of 118 Gladstone Street, Peterborough was his next of kin; his father was deceased. Arthur's birth had been registered in Peterborough in 1883. On the 1901 census he had been living at 118 Gladstone Street with his parents George and Kate Savage. His father died a few months later in 1901).