Notes
The Roll lists his address as 42 Tower Street. (It also records the death of his brother George). It inaccurately lists his date of death as 25/5/1918.
(CWGC records that Private James Parrott, regimental number 22894, died on 27/5/1918 serving in 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 6B of Soissons Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he enlisted at Brigg in Lincolnshire, and that he died on 27/5/1918. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects likewise record his date of death as 27/5/1918, stating that his widow Pattie was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he served in the Lincolnshire Regiment under regimental number 22894, then in the Royal Engineers under regimental number 252206, then returned to the Lincolnshire Regiment under regimental number 22894. James Parrott was the son of Eliza and John Thomas Edward Parrott, with whom he was living on the 1911 census at 42 Tower Street, New Fletton, Peterborough; he was aged 20, and his place of birth was given as Kentish Town, London. His birth had been registered in Pancras District in 1891; on the 1891 census he had been 1 month old, living with his parents at 122 Weedington Road in St Pancras, Kentish Town. James Parrott's marriage to Pattie Baker was registered in the Peterborough District in 1912; the births of their three children was also registered in Peterborough).