Notes
The Roll lists his address as 46 St John's Street. It misrecords his 2nd forename as "Ancres"; it was actually Ambrose.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal W.A. Smith, regimental number 267530, died aged 24 on 29/9/1917 serving in 1st/1st Bucks Battalion of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, and is buried in grave VIII.E.9 at Dozinghem Military Cemetery in Belgium. They record him as the son of James and Susannah Smith of 46 St John's Street, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects recorded him as "William Ambrose Smith", that he died of wounds on 29/9/1917, and that his mother Susannah was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise recorded him as William Ambrose Smith, stating he was living in Peterborough when he enlisted in Huntingdon. His Medal Index Card records that he served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 716 before joining the Oxford & Bucks Regiment under regimental number 20746O, which later changed to 267530. On the 1901 census "William Ambrose Smith" was living with his parents James and Susannah in St John's Road, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was living with them at 79 St John's Street. His birth was registered in 1894 as William Ambrose Smith in the Peterborough District).