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the Roll lists his address as 17 New Road. It misrecords his forenames as Walter William and his date of death as 2/4/1918; his name was actually William Walter Bursnall Tooke, and he died on 3/4/1918.
(CWGC records that Private W.W. Tooke, regimental number 31024, died on 3/4/1918 serving in 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave IV.D.7 at Gommecourt British Cemetery No 2 at Hebuterne in France, having been reinterred after the War.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that William Walter Tooke died on 3/4/1918, and that his widow France B Tooke was his legatee. The marriage of William Walter Bursnall Tooke (aged 31, son of William James Tooke deceased) and Frances Bessie Handley was recorded in the Marriage registers of St Mary's Church in Peterborough on 15/8/1912.
The birth of William Walter B Tooke was registered in the Peterborough District in 1881. On the 1891 census he was recorded as William W Tooke, living with his parents James and Martha in Bedford Street, St Mary's parish in Peterborough. On the 1901 and 1911 census he was recorded as William, living with his widowed mother in Weymouth Cottage, Bedford Street, Peterborough).