Notes
The Roll lists his address as 4 Glebe Road. It records his date of death as 9/10/1916, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Second Lieutenant Richard Ernest Duchesne died aged 25 on 8/10/1916 while serving in B Company 7th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave IV.A.9 at Villers Station Cemetery at Villers-au-Bois in France. They record him as a native of Bournemouth, the son of Ernest C & Fanny Duchesne of The Hut, Maze Green Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. Soldiers Died in the Great War also records Richard's date of death as 8/10/1916, as do the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects. The 7th Battalion's War Diary entry for 8/10/1916 recorded that: "2nd Lt R.E. Duchesne killed whilst examining our wire during night". When his death was announced on 20/10/1916 in the Northampton Mercury, Richard was reported to have been the Honorary Secretary of the Peterborough Town Cricket Club).