Notes
The Roll lists his address as 11 Field Street.
(CWGC records that Sapper Alfred Charles Cannam Smith M.M., regimental number 43660, died aged 27 on 4/10/1917 serving in 7th Divisional Signal Company of the Royal Engineers, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Betsy Cannam Smith of 11 Field Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Alfred Smith was a native of Fletton who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Betsy and his siblings were his legatees. The award of Alfred's Military Medal was published in the London Gazette on 8/12/1916: Supplement 2984; Page 12052. Contrary to the notation in Soldiers Died in the Great War, Alfred was in fact born in Finsbury Park; his birth was registered in Islington District in 1889. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents Frederick and Betsy at 29 Bedford Street, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with them at 33 Morris Street, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Finsbury Park. His father died in 1909. On the 1911 census Alfred was living with his widowed mother at 11 Field Street in Peterborough; his place of birth was again given as Finsbury Park. Alfred is commemorated on his parents' grave in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see War Memorials Register reference 70075).