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The Roll lists his address as "Late of Stanground".
(CWGC records that Private J H Ward, regimental number 3/6214, died on 16/8/1917 serving in 7th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave LXVII.D.13 at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium, having been reinterred after the War.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records James Henry Ward as a native of Stanground, stating he enlisted in Old Fletton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that James Henry Ward's sister Jane Jackson was his legatee.
The birth of James Henry Ward in Nassington was registered in Oundle District in 1882. He was baptised at Nassington Church on 24/8/1882 as the son of James Henry and Hannah Ward. On the 1891 census he was living with his widowed father James at 4 Stone Cottages in Fletton, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was boarding with his sister (Sarah) Jane and her husband Charles Thomas Jackson at 40 Persimmon Terrace in Fletton. On the 1911 census James was lodging at Milton Villas in Askern Spa, Doncaster in Yorkshire. On all three census returns James was recorded as a native of Nassington).