Notes
The Roll lists his address as 5 King's Road, Old Fletton. It also records the death of his brother Zacchaeus.
(CWGC records that Private Walter Simpson, regimental number 30229, died aged 22 on 3/9/1916 serving in 14th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Mrs Martha Simpson of 5 King's Road, Old Fletton, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Eastrea who was living in Old Fletton when he enlisted at Huntingdon, and that he had served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 1571 before joining the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Martha was his legatee. On the 1911 census Walter had been living with his parents Martha and James at 16 Brookdale, Stanground, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Eastrea. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents in Eastrea, Whittlesey; also in the household was his brother Zacchaeus. Walter's birth was registered in Whittlesey District in 1894).