Notes
The Roll lists his address as 179 Dogsthorpe Road.
(CWGC records that Private John Porter, regimental number 25181, died on 21/11/1917 serving in 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that John was a native of Helpston who enlisted at Peterborough, and that he was killed in action. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Mabel A Porter was his legatee. On the 1911 census John had been aged 22, living with his wife Mabel Adela at 179 Dogsthorpe Road in Peterborough; they stated they had been married less than a year. (Mabel Adela Stevenson's marriage to John Porter was registered in Peterborough District in 1910). On the 1901 census John Porter had been living with his parents John and Selina Porter at 193 Eastfield Road, Peterborough).