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The Roll lists his address as 119 Crown Street. It inaccurately lists his regimental number as 500353, and that he died at Ypres on 22/8/1916.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest Harry Seaton, regimental number 500252, died aged 32 on 21/8/1916 serving in the 1st Army Troops Company of the Canadian Engineers, and is buried in grave G.31 at Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of John and Mary Seaton of Crown Street, Peterborough, and the husband of Bessie M Seaton of 64 Manchester Road, Mossley, Manchester, England. The attestation form of Ernest Harry Seaton, regimental number 500252 is at the Library and Archives Canada. It records that he was born on 25/4/1884 in Peterborough, England, and that when he enlisted on 20/7/1915 he gave his next of kin as his wife at Alta Vista, P.O., Burnaby, British Columbia. Ernest Harry Seaton's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1884. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents Charles and Mary at 2 Paradise Place, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at New Road, Woodston. On the 1911 Canada census Ernest was living with his wife Bessie Maria and their three daughters in New Westminster, British Columbia: their two elder daughters aged 8 and 5 had been born in England; the younger daughter aged 1 had been born in British Columbia in 1910. On the 1911 England census Ernest's widowed mother was living at 41 Eastfield Road in Peterborough).