Notes
The Roll lists his address as 10 Cobden Street. It records his rank as Sergeant, whereas official records list him as Private.
(CWGC records that Private John Alfred Costin, regimental number G/857, died aged 26 on 7/7/1916 serving in the 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and is buried in grave VIII.H.10 at Ovillers Military Cemetery in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of Edward & Maud Marion Costin of 10 Cobden Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise recorded him as a Private, as did the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects and the Medal Rolls).