Notes
The Roll lists his address as "Late of Narrow Street". It records him as a Corporal, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Eric Carruthers Leigh, regimental number 2615, died aged 20 on 1/7/1916 serving in 19th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and is now buried in grave II.B.15 at Serre Road Cemetery No 1 in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as a native of Peterborough, the son of George Thomas and Kathleen Mary Leigh of Thorpleigh, Stockens Green, Knebworth, Stevenage, Herts. His Army service file records he was sent to France 14/4/1916, and that he relinquished the rank of Lance Corporal on 30/4/1916. He was serving as a Private when he died on 1/7/1916).