Notes
The Roll lists his address as 203 Lincoln Road, New England, Peterborough; this address was otherwise known as 203 GNR Cottages, New England.
(CWGC records that Private Albert Edward Abbott, regimental number 17271, was serving in the 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment when he died aged 39 on 30/1/1916. They record him as the husband of Mrs Abbott of 203 GNR Cottages, New England, and that he is buried in grave 1357 at Fort Pitt Military Cemetery in Chatham, Kent.
On 5/2/1916 the Peterborough Advertiser reported that Albert had been a chef at the Officers' Mess at Strood. He and a comrade had both been run over by a bus on Strood Hill in Rochester, while out walking at night during the blackout. Both died that night of their injuries).