Notes
The Roll lists his address as 12 Church Street, Stanground. It misrecords his regimental number as 12009 and that he died on 1/7/1916; his true regimental number was 17009, and he died on 2/7/1916.
(CWGC records that Private Thomas Tilson, regimental number 17009, died aged 20 on 2/7/1916 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave V.S.8 at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery at Mametz in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of William and Fanny Tilson of Church Street, Stanground, Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record him as "Tom Tilson", and state record that he was sent to France on 26/7/1915 and was killed in action on 2/7/1916. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Thomas died on 2/7/1916, and that his father William was his legatee).