Notes
The Roll lists his address as 50 St John's Street. (It also recorded the death of his brother Frank).
(CWGC records that Private W Searson, regimental number 37428, died aged 18 on 25/8/1917 serving in 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, and is buried in grave IV.B.1 at Hamburg Cemetery in Germany. They record him as the brother of Mrs Jepson of 5 Bright Street, Peterborough. The birth of Wilfred Harbour Searson was registered in Peterborough District in 1898. On the 1901 census he was living with his mother Elizabeth in St John's Street, Peterborough; his absent father was stated to be an Army Reservist. Wilfred's mother died in 1910. On the 1911 census he was living with his father George at 46 St Mary's Street, Peterborough; also in the household were Wilfred's brother Frank and their elder sister Ruby May. The Medal Rolls record that Wilfred served initially in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 3560 before joining the Royal Berkshire Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 25/8/1917 as a Prisoner of War in Soltau, Germany, and that Mrs Ruby May Jepson was his legatee).