Notes
The Roll lists his address as 132 Huntly Grove. It states he died on 4/5/1917, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Charles Frederick Silk, regimental number 31013, died on 3/5/1917 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 7 of Arras Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Cambridge who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action on 3/5/1917, and that his widow Mabel A Silk was his legatee. The marriage of Charles F Silk to Mabel A Cox was registered in Peterborough District in 1913. [His widow Mabel married William Thurston in Peterborough in 1920]. On the 1911 census Charles Frederick Silk, aged 26, had been lodging at 33 Clarketgate, Lincoln; his place of birth was given as Cambridge. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents George and Jane at 7 Summerfield, Cambridge. His birth was registered in Cambridge District in 1884).