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The Roll lists "Frederick Seaton's" address as 7 Wellington Street, and states that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. (It also recorded the death of his brother "Arthur Seaton"). It wrongly states that he died on 10/11/1914 serving in the 1st Battalion Northants Regiment.
(CWGC records that Private F Seaton, regimental number 3/9302, died aged 21 on 28/1/1915 serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.L.10 at Merville Communal Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Mr G. F. and Mrs M. A. Seaton of 6 Marriett's Yard, City Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Frederick Seaton as a native of St Mary's parish, Grantham who enlisted in Peterborough, and that he died of wounds on 28/1/1915. The Medal Rolls record that he went to France with the 2nd Battalion on 6/11/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died of wounds at Merville on 28/1/1915, and that his legatee was Ada Baker.
Although he served in the Army as "Frederick Seaton", and is therefore recorded as such by CWGC and in Army documents, his legal name was actually George Frederick S Mann, as which his birth was registered in the Grantham District in 1894. On the 1901 census he was recorded as "Fred Mann", living with his mother Mrs Mary A Mann at 6 Wellington Street in Peterborough; also in the house was his brother Arthur, aged 9, and sister Lillie aged 6. [On the 1891 census his mother Mary had been living with her husband George Mann in Grantham; her husband was still living in Grantham on the 1901 and 1911 census].
On the 1911 census Mary Mann was living with George Seaton at 8 Woodland Terrace in Wood Street, Peterborough. (They falsely stated on that census form that they had been married for 22 years; in fact, her marriage to George F Seaton was not registered until 1926 in the Peterborough District). On the 1911 census Mary's sons, Arthur and Frederick, were recorded under the surname Seaton and described as George Seaton's sons. Although Frederick and Arthur's legal surname was Mann, they both served and died in the Army in WW1 under the surname Seaton).