Notes
The Roll lists his address as London Road. It wrongly states that he died serving in the Tank Corps.
(CWGC records that Private J.T. Sykes, regimental number 775567, died aged 26 between 8/8/1918 and 9/8/1918 serving in 87th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry, and is buried in grave A.53 at Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as a native of St Mary's, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, the son of Mrs Evelyn Sykes of 63 New Road, Peterborough. John Thomas Sykes' attestation form on the Library and Archives Canada website records that he was born on 7/8/1893 in Ramsey St Mary's; he stated he was a butcher by trade, and that his next of kin was Evelyn Sykes of 6 East View, London Road, Peterborough. He enlisted on 4/1/1916 at Brampton, Ontario. On the 1911 census John was recorded as "Tom Sykes", aged 18, living with his widowed mother Evelyn at 150 Oundle Road, Woodston, Peterborough; he was stated to be a butcher, and his place of birth was given as Ramsey. The death of his father Ebenezer Sykes had been registered in Whittlesey District in 1893. John T Sykes, aged 21, was recorded on the passenger manifest of the Virginian that left Liverpool 15/4/1914 bound for Canada).