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The Roll lists his address as Westwood Street. It records him as 'Bernard Shrive' (his forenames were actually John Bernard), and states he served in the 6th Battalion, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private John Bernard Shrive, regimental number 42209, died aged 23 on 18/10/1917 serving in the 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and is now buried in collective grave 6.G.2-11 at Dar es Salaam War Cemetery in Tunisia, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of Jane and Thomas William Shrive of West Street, King's Cliffe, Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record that he served in the 20th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in France from 16/10/1916 to 22/4/1917, then with the 25th Battalion in the Asiatic Theatre (Mesopotamia and Bushire) from 23/7/1917 to 18/10/1917. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that John died at Nakadl and that his mother Jane was his legatee. John Bernard Shrive's birth was registered in the Oundle District in 1894. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Jane and William at Stoke End, Oundle; his place of birth was given as Tansor. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 23 Wood Street, Newtown, Peterborough).