Notes
The Roll lists his address as 95 Gladstone Street, and is noted that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal.
(CWGC records that Private William Harry Thorpe, regimental number 14270, died aged 23 on 4/9/1914 serving in 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, and is buried in grave I.3 at Guards Grave, Villers Cotterets Forest in France. They record him as the son of Rose Thorpe of 95 Gladstone Street, Peterborough and the late Samuel Thorpe.
On the 1901 census William was living with his parents at 56 Cobden Street, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was serving as a Private in the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in London. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father Samuel was his legatee.
William was also commemorated on a family headstone in Broadway Cemetery- see WMR ref 70262).