Notes
The Roll lists his address as 13 St Mary's Street. It stated he died on 12/3/1915, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private James Fryer, regimental number 16311, died on 10/3/1915 while serving in 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. They do not list his next of kin. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise records that James Fryer died on 10/3/1915, and states that he was a native of Norwich who had enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Elizabeth was his legatee. On the 1911 census James had been living at 18 Thacker's Row, St Mary's Street in Peterborough with his wife Elizabeth; he had given his age as 23 and stated he was born in Norwich. The marriage of James Fryer to Elizabeth Walker had been registered in Peterborough District in 1906. On the 1891 census he had been living with his parents Henry and Jemima Fryer in Lakenham in Norfolk. His birth had been registered in Norwich in 1888).