Notes
The Roll lists his address as 5 Bread Street, New Fletton. (It also recorded the death of his brother Walter Simpson). N.B. The Roll mistakenly listed him twice: once under this correct surname of Simpson (albeit misspelling his forename as 'Zaccheus'), and also under the name 'Jack Stimson'. The rogue entry under 'Stimson' resulted from his name being misrecorded in local press reports when his death was announced in late October 1918.
(CWGC records that Private Zac Simpson, regimental number 269795, died aged 35 on 3/10/1918 serving in 1st/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), and is buried in grave V.P.8 at Bellicourt British Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of the late James Simpson of 5 King's Road, Old Fletton, Peterborough, and the husband of May Winifred Simpson of 61A Salford Road, Streatham Hill, London. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Glasmore Fen, Cambridgeshire who was living in New Fletton when he enlisted at Huntingdon. The Medal Rolls record that Zacchaeus Simpson served initially in the 1/7th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters under the regimental number 20582, before joining the 1/6th Battalion under regimental number 269795. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as Zacchaeus Simpson, and that his widow Mary W Simpson was his legatee. On the 1911 census he was recorded as Zacchaeus Simpson, a servant at the Bedford Coffee House Temperance Hotel in Queen's Street, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was recorded as Zacchaeus, living with his parents James and Martha at Eastree, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1891 census he was likewise recorded as Zacchaeus, living with his parents in Benwick Road, Whittlesey, which was recorded as his place of birth. His birth was registered as Zacchaeus Simpson in the Whittlesey District in 1884. His marriage to May W Neilon in the Peterborough District in 1916 was registered under the name Zaccheus Simpson).