Notes
His address is listed as 24 Jauncey's Yard, Bridge Street. It accurately recorded his regimental number as 10858.
(CWGC records that Private Isaac Lightfoot died aged 36 on 1/12/1917 serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and is commemorated on Panel 2 of Cambrai Memorial at Louverval in France. They record him as the son of Sarah Lightfoot of 24 Jauncey's Buildings, Bridge Street, Peterborough and the late John Lightfoot. [Isaac Lightfoot's regimental number is correctly recorded as 10858 in the Commission's Casualty Register, but currently appears inaccurately on their online database as 10656. The Commission has been requested to amend that online record].
Isaac's birth in Fletton was registered in Peterborough District in 1881. On the 1881 census he was aged 2 months, living with his parents John & Sarah at 35 Park Street in Fletton. His father's death was registered in 1906. On the 1911 census Isaac was living with his widowed mother Sarah at 24 Jauncey's Yard in Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record that Private Isaac Lightfoot of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, regimental number 10858, was first posted overseas on 20/9/1914, and was killed in action on 1/12/1917. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects likewise recorded Isaac's regimental number as 10858, stating that his mother Sarah was his legatee).