Notes
The Roll lists his address as Southwell Cottages, Werrington, and states that he was entitled to the 1914 Star, Long Service and Good Conduct Medals. It misrecords his regimental number as 4279; it was actually 4278.
(CWGC records that Serjeant Walter Stimpson, regimental number 4278, died on 14/9/1914 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 20A of La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of St Mark's parish in Peterborough who enlisted at Castor, and likewise records his regimental number as 4278. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his siblings were his legatees. Walter's Army service file records his regimental number as 4278, and that he was aged 20, serving in the 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, when he was attested on 19/2/1894. His next of kin was originally his mother May Stimpson of St John's Villa, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, but later changed to his brother Edgar Joseph Stimpson of 38 Alma Road, Millfield, Peterborough. Walter's file records that he was posted as wounded and missing at Moulins on 14/9/1914, and later recorded as killed in action on that date).