Notes
The Roll lists his address as 86 Dogsthorpe Road.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Charles William Stapleton, regimental number 50705, died aged 26 on 16/4/1918 serving in the 11th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial in France. They record him as the son of J Stapleton of Cotterstock, Oundle, Northants and husband of Florence Stapleton of 86 Dogsthorpe Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Charles as a native of Raunds who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted at Doncaster, that he served in the 3rd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment under regimental number 25703 before joining the Cheshire Regiment, and that he died on 16/4/1918. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died as a Prisoner of War in Germany between 23/3/1918 and 16/4/1918, and that his widow Florence was his legatee. The Army service file of Charles William Stapleton records that he was living at 86 Dogsthorpe Road in Peterborough when he enlisted as a Private in the Bedfordshire Regiment on 11/12/1915. At that time his next of kin was his brother Fred of Willesdale Farm, Peterborough, but changed following Charles marriage to Florence Wright on 18/6/1916 at All Saints' Church in Peterborough. He was later promoted to paid Corporal in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He transferred to the 11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment on 18/3/1917. His Army file records that on 24/3/1918 he was a Prisoner of War at Friedrichsfield Wesel in Germany, and that he died between 23/3/1918 and 16/4/1918. His widow was awarded a pension).