Notes
The Roll lists his address as 88 Eastfield Road. It mistakenly recorded his surname as "Leeding".
(CWGC records that Private John William Leading, regimental number 8274, died aged 31 on 11/11/1914 serving in 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, and is commemorated on Addenda Panel 59 of Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of William and Elizabeth Leading of 88 Eastfield Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War recorded John William Leading as a native of Peterborough. His Army service file records his surname as "Leading"; that he enlisted in the Scottish Rifles on 18/10/1904, and was transferred to the West Riding Regiment on 20/10/1904. He was mobilised on 5/8/1914, posted to France on 13/8/1914, and was reported as missing, presumed killed, on 11/11/1914).