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The Roll of Honour lists his address as 52 Windmill Street.
(CWGC records that Private John Arden, regimental number 202360, was serving in the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment when he died on 25/3/1918. He is commemorated on Panels 54-56 of Pozieres Memorial in France.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that John Arden was a native of 'Ellesley' (actually Elksley) in Nottinghamshire, and that he had enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Elizabeth Mumford was his legatee. When his death was announced on 27/4/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser, his age was given as 21, and he was reported to be the adopted son of Mr & Mrs G. Mumford of 52 Windmill Street, Peterborough. He was stated to have worked as a pointsman for Great Northern Railway Company before enlisting in November 1916, and to have been posted to France in July 1917).