Notes
The roll lists his address as Gladstone Street, and states he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. (The Roll of Honour also recorded the death of his brother John).
(CWGC records that Private James Smitheringale, regimental number 7302, died on 17/9/1914 serving in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 20 of La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that James Smitheringale was a native of All Saints' parish in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he enlisted on 1/1/1904, and that his widow Florence was his legatee. The marriage of James E Smitheringale to Florence Coxall was registered in the Basford District of Nottinghamshire in 1910. On the 1911 census James Ernest Smitheringale was aged 22, living with his wife Florence at Scarcliffe Street in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire; he gave his place of birth as Peterborough. His birth had been registered as James Ernest Smitheringale in Peterborough District in 1888; he was the son of George and Hannah Smitheringale. His father's death was registered in Peterborough in 1889; his mother's marriage to John Stevenson was registered in the Peterborough District in 1891. On the 1891 census James was living with his mother Hannah and step-father John Stevenson at Garton End, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with them at 29 Cobden Street, Peterborough).