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The Roll lists his address as Albert Place.
(CWGC records that Serjeant W. Wainwright, regimental number 8471, died on 3/2/1915 serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave IV.D.26 at Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner at Cuinchy in France, having been reinterred after the War.
The Medal Rolls record that William Wainwright was posted to France on 6/11/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father Thomas and brother David were his legatees.
The birth of William Frederick Wainwright was registered in Aston District in 1891. On the 1891 census he was aged 4 months, living with his parents Bertha and Thomas in Aston, Birmingham. On the 1901 census William was aged 10, living with his parents at East View Cottages, Rogers Street, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Birmingham.
When William's death was announced on 20/2/1915 in the Peterborough Advertiser, he was reported to have been killed at La Bassee at noon on 3/2/1915. He was stated to have been serving in the Army for eight years, and to have been in the Camel Corps in Egypt prior to the War. He was also reported to have held the Humane Society's Medal for saving a life in Egypt).