Notes
The Roll lists his address as 38 Eastfield Road.
(CWGC records that Lance Serjeant Frederick Wardale Smith, regimental number 14810, died aged 25 on 14/7/1916 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Face 11A of Thiepval Memorial in France. They record that he was the son of Mrs Smith of the Alms Rooms, Minster Precincts, Peterborough. Frederick was born in Peterborough in 1891, the son of Mary Ann and Charles Lewis Smith. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at 26 Lime Tree Avenue, Peterborough. His father died in 1908. On the 1911 census Frederick was living with his widowed mother at 67 Midland Road, Peterborough. Frederick's Army service file records that he enlisted on 29/1/1909 as a Gunner in the Northamptonshire Battery Royal Field Artillery, regimental number 4129. He left the Army on 27/1/1913, having completed 4 years' service.. Following the outbreak of War, he re-enlisted and was appointed as a Corporal in the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 14810; he was later promoted to Lance Serjeant. He went to France on 1/9/1915. Having been wounded at the Battle of Loos, he was invalided home. He then transferred to the 6th Battalion and returned to France, where he was killed in action on 14/7/1916. Frederick is commemorated on a stone on his parents' grave in Broadway Cemetery- see WMR ref 70082).