Notes
The Roll lists his address as Sessions House, Thorpe Road. It records that he died on 5/9/1918, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Second Lieutenant W L Slaughter died aged 23 on 6/9/1918 serving in the Huntingdon Cyclist Battalion, attached to the Essex Regiment, and is now buried in grave V.O.14 at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of William and Sarah Jane Slaughter of 12 Thorpe Lea Road, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that William was killed in action on 6/9/1918. His Medal Index Card records that he served in the Hunts Cyclist as an Acting Corporal under regimental numbers 1762 and 290371 before his commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 16/7/1917, and that he was killed in action on 6/9/1918. William's address for Probate was Thorpe Road, Peterborough; his father, Police Superintendent William Slaughter, administered his estate. On the 1911 census William Leonard Slaughter had been aged 15, living with his mother Sarah Jane at the Police Station in Thorpe Road, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents Sarah and William at Hall Hill, Brigstock, Northants. William Leonard Slaughter's birth was registered in Wellingborough District in 1895. His baptism was recorded in the registers of Higham Ferrers' Church on 13/10/1895, as the son of William and Sarah Slaughter of Higham Ferrers).