Notes
The Roll lists his address as 28 Palmerstone Road, and states he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It records his date of death as 12/11/1914, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Herbert Northfield, regimental number 6403, died on 10/11/1914 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects likewise record that he was killed in action on 10/11/1914, and that his widow Ellen Baxter* was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Herbert as a native of Old Fletton who enlisted in Peterborough. Herbert's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1884. He was baptised at Fletton on 7/9/1884 as the son of Mary Ann and Austin Cave Northfield, with whom he was living in Love Lane, Fletton on the 1891 census. His marriage to Ellen Aldwinckle was registered in Peterborough in 1909. On the 1911 census they and their 11 month old daughter were living at Water End, Woodston. *A few months after Herbert's death on 10/11/1914, his widow Ellen married Frederick H Baxter; their marriage was registered in Peterborough District in the 1st quarter of 1915).