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The Roll lists no address or regimental number for him.
(CWGC records that Private John Botterill, regimental number G/52718, died aged 41 on 15/6/1917 serving in 26th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium; they record him as the husband of Emily Botterill of 23 Crag Path, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Soldiers Died in the Great War records John as a native of Stanground who was living in Aldeburgh when he enlisted, and that he served in the 14th Battalion of the Essex Regiment under regimental number 31048 before joining the Royal Fusiliers. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Emily was his legatee. On the 1911 census John was living at 8 High Street in Aldeburgh with his wife Emily and their 6 surviving children; he stated he had been married 13 years. On the 1901 census he and Emily had been living at 1 Lion Cottage in Aldeburgh. His marriage to Emily Gray had been registered in Plomesgate in Suffolk in 1898. On the 1891 census John had been living with his widowed father Robert at Star Lane in Peterborough. On the 1881 census he had been living with his parents Robert and Sarah in Whittlesey Road, Stanground. John's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1876).