Notes
The Roll lists his address as 21 Monument Street. It records he died on 9/10/1916, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private A Smith, regimental number 70168, died on 10/10/1916 serving in 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby regiment), and is now buried in grave XI.C.8 at Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, France, having been reinterred after the War. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private A Smith, regimental number 70168, was a native of Little Munden, Herts who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Bedford, and that he died on 10/10/1916. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action on 8/10/1916; his legatees were his mother Mary A Smith and sister Mrs Rachel Hardwick. When the death of Private Arthur Smith of the Notts and Derbys Regiment was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 29/10/1916 he was reported to have been the youngest son of Mrs Smith of Church Street, Stanground. A letter to his mother from Captain R L Illingworth was quoted as stating that Arthur was killed during an attack on German trenches on 9/10/1916. The Advertiser reported that Arthur had joined the Army six months previously and had been in the trenches for about three months, and that prayers had been offered up for Arthur, his mother and family at Stanground Church the previous Sunday. On the 1911 census the widowed Mrs Mary Ann Smith was living at 20 Church Street, Stanground. On the 1901 census she had been living at North Street, Stanground with two of her sons, including her youngest son Arthur, aged 20, whose place of birth was given as Stanground. On the 1891 census Arthur had been living with his mother in North Street, Stanground).