Notes
The Roll lists his address as Gladstone Street South. It records his first forename as 'Vincent', which differs from some official records.
(CWGC records that Private V J East, regimental number 410489, died on 20/11/1916 while serving in 38th Battalion Canadian Infantry, and is buried in grave VIII.F.31 at Contay British Cemetery in France. His legal name was actually "Vincit John East", as which his birth at Kirton-in-Lindsay, Lincolnshire was registered in 1895, and as which he was recorded on both the 1901 and 1911 census; in 1911 he was living with his parents, Emma & John Thomas East, at 3 Barncroft Villa, Manor House Street in Peterborough. "V J East", aged 18, was recorded on the ship's manifest of the Empress of Britain on 7/3/1914, when he left Liverpool bound for Halifax Nova Scotia. His forenames were recorded as 'Vincent John' in all official Canadian records, including his Army file).