Notes
The Roll lists his address as 14 Elm Street.
(CWGC records that Private J W Oliver, regimental number 21474, died on 9/2/1917 serving in the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and is now buried in grave V.I.9 at Sailly Saillisel British Cemetery in France, having been reinterred after the War. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that John William Oliver was a native of Upton who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Elizabeth A Oliver was his legatee. On the 1911 census John was aged 17, living with his parents James and Elizabeth Ann Oliver in English Drove, Thorney, Peterborough; they recorded on that census that he was their only surviving child, and had been born in Upton, Northamptonshire. His birth had been registered in the Peterborough District in 1893).