Notes
The Roll of Honour lists his address as 239 Rogers Street, and that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal.
(CWGC records that Sergeant George Afford of the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 8477, died on 9/5/1915; having no known grave, he is commemorated on Panel 7 of Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.
On 22/5/1915 the Peterborough Advertiser reported his death as "Corporal George Afford", listing his mother's address as 239 Rogers Street, Peterborough. They reported that he was serving in A Company of the 2nd Battalion when he died. One of his comrades (Sergeant F Bennett) had written to George's mother, informing her that her son had been killed during a charge on the German trenches).