Notes
The Roll lists his address as Craig Street. It wrongly states that he died in 1915 serving in the 3rd Battalion.
(CWGC records that Private J Lightfoot, regimental number 3/7584, died on 6/11/1914 serving in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave II.A.2 of Ypres Town Cemetery Extension in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that John was a native of Peterborough who enlisted in Landguard, Suffolk. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action at Ypres on 6/11/1914, having been born in Peterborough and enlisted on 26/7/1908; his father Ezekiel and sister Emma were his legatees. The Medal Rolls record that John served only in the 1st Battalion in WW1, and that he disembarked in France on 31/8/1914. They state he died of wounds on 6/11/1914. On the 1911 census he had been aged 20, living with his widowed father Ezekiel at 21 Craig Street, Peterborough; John's mother, Fanny Maud Lightfoot, had died in 1910).