Notes
The Roll lists his address as 15 Hills Yard, and states that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal.
(CWGC records that Private William Ernest Sergeant, regimental number 7671, died aged 30 on 17/9/1914 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 20 at La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. The record him as the husband of Elizabeth A H Sergeant of 2 Hills Yard, Broad Bridge Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records William as a native of Sapley, Hunts who enlisted at Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as a native of Sapley who had enlisted on 13/3/1905, and that his legatee was his widow Elizabeth Ann Howard. The marriage of William E Sergeant to Elizabeth A H Pepper was registered in the Peterborough District in 1913. On the 1911 census William "Sergant", aged 26, had been recorded as a soldier, living with his widowed mother Martha at 3 Hills Yard, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was recorded as William Sergeant, aged 13, living with his mother Martha in Great Stukely, Huntingdonshire. On the 1891 census he was recorded as William Sargeant, aged 3, living with his parents Philip and Martha at Great Stukely. His birth had actually been registered as "William Ernest Sergent" in Huntingdon District in 1887).