Notes
The Roll lists his address as 41 Eastgate. It misrecords his forenames as Horace Edward; his name was actually Horace Edwin Sawyer.
(CWGC records that Horace Edwin Sawyer, regimental number 13479, died aged 20 on 14/7/1916 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave O.85 of Bernafay Wood British Cemetery at Montauban in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as a native of Farcet, and as the son of Mr & Mrs Sawyer of 89 Belsize Avenue, Woodston, Peterborough. Horace Edwin Sawyer's birth was registered in the Peterborough District in 1895. He was baptised on 13/9/1895 in Fletton as Horace Edwin, son of Harriet Ellen and George William Sawyer. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents "William and Ellen" at 13 St Margaret's Place, Fletton, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was living with them at Broadway, Farcet, Peterborough. On both census returns Horace was stated to be a native of Fletton. The Army service file of Horace Edwin Sawyer records that he gave his place of birth as Farcet when he enlisted on 3/9/1914 at Northampton, stating he was aged 19 and living in lodgings at 41 Eastgate, Peterborough. He was posted to the 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment on 4/9/1914, sent to France on 26/7/1915, and killed in action 14/7/1916. The file contains a letter sent to his mother on 16/1/1917 at 9 Belle View Cottages, Farcet Road, Peterborough; it also contains a later letter from his mother dated 5/2/1919, stating she had moved to 89 Belsize Avenue, Woodston, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Horace's mother Harriet Ellen was his legatee).