Notes
The Roll lists his address as 47 Holdich Street.
(CWGC records that Private Fred Stapleton, regimental number G/17896, died on 3/5/1917 serving in the 6th Battalion of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 7 of Arras Memorial. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Fred as a native of Peterborough, and that he served in the Royal Fusiliers under regimental number 2927 before joining the Royal West Kent Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Rhoda was his legatee. Fred Stapleton's marriage to Rhoda Bowering was registered in Peterborough District in 1908. On the 1911 census they were living at 47 Holdich Street, Peterborough. That was the address recorded on Fred's Army service file, which records that he was 35 years old when he enlisted on 11/12/1915, and that his death on 3/5/1917 was presumed).