Notes
The Roll lists his address as 91 St John's Street.
(CWGC records that Private Harry Mossendew, regimental number 5291, died aged 26 on 16/9/1915 serving in 9th Battalion of the Seaforth Higlanders, and is buried in grave I.D.11 at Vermelles British Cemetery in France. They record him as the husband of Winifred Mary Mossendew of 14 Gown Row, Cymbach, Aberdare. Soldiers Died in the Great War record Harry as a native of Leeds who enlisted in Aberdeen. Harry's birth had been registered in Leeds in 1889. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents Sarah and William in Leeds. His father died in 1898; his mother married John Henry Batty in 1900. On the 1901 census Harry was living with his mother and stepfather in Ellerby Lane, Leeds. His step-father died in Leeds in 1907. On the 1911 census Harry's widowed mother Sarah Batty was living at 79 Wellington Street, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Harry Mossendew's widow Winifred Mary was his legatee. His marriage to Winifred M Davies had been registered in 1915 in Merthyr Tydfil. When Harry's death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 25/9/1915 he was reported to have been "formerly of Peterborough, and brother of Mrs Simpson, St John's Street, Peterborough").