Notes
The Roll lists his address as 99 Crown Street.
(CWGC record that Corporal H Simmons, regimental number 13764, died on 2/7/1916 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave II.B.16 at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of St Paul's, New England (Peterborough) who enlisted at Northampton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at 34 Casualty Clearing Station, and that his widow Edith L Thorpe* was his legatee. Horace Simmons' marriage to Edith Lavina Forward was registered in Newark District in 1906. [*His widow Edith married Harold Thorpe in the Newark District in 1919]. On the 1911 census Horace was aged 26, living with Edith and their 3 children at 81 Cross Street, New England, Peterborough. On the 1901 and 1891 census he had been living with his parents George and Emma in Crown Street, Peterborough. His birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1885; his baptism was recorded in the Baptism register of St Paul's Church in New England, Peterborough on 6/9/1885).