Notes
The Roll lists his address as 46 London Road. It wrongly recorded his date of death as 27/10/1916, and his regimental number as 20805.
(CWGC records that Private Herbert Ling, regimental number 307680, died on 27/8/1916 serving in 1st/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Herbert Ling regimental number 307680, was a native of Peterborough who died on 27/8/1916 serving in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, having formerly served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 780. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his regimental number was initially 780, then changed to 20805, and later to 307680; his mother Louisa was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he served in the 1/1st Hunts Cyclists as 780, then in the Royal Warwickshires as 307680. On the 1911 census Herbert had been aged 15, living with his parents Louisa and Frederick Ling at 6 Prospect Place, London Road, Fletton, Peterborough).