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The Roll lists his address as 234 Cromwell Road. It misrecords his forenames as Robert Wilfred and his service number as 8360; his name was actually Wilfred Robert Ulyatt, and his service number was RMA/13204.
(CWGC records that Bombardier Wilfred Robert Ulyatt, service number RMA/13204, died on 31/5/1916 serving in the Royal Marine Artillery on HMS Lion, and is commemorated on Panel 21 of Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Hampshire.
Wilfred Robert Ulyatt's birth was registered in Oundle District in 1895. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Caroline and Henry Robert Ulyatt at Mill End, Warmington, Northamptonshire, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1911 census Wilfred was recorded as an apprentice draper at Messrs Oates & Musson in High Street, Stamford.
The Royal Navy registers of Naval casualties record that Wilfred was born on 28/10/1895 at Warmington near Oundle, that he was buried at sea, and that his next of kin was his mother Caroline at 82 Belsize Avenue, Woodstack (sic; actually Woodston), Peterborough. The Royal Marines Registers of Service record that Wilfred had enlisted on 2/12/1912.
On 10/6/1916 the Peterborough Advertiser announced Wilfred's death, reporting that he had been orderly to Admiral Beatty for two years, before becoming a Bombardier in March 1916. On 1/7/1917 the Advertiser quoted from a letter Wilfred's mother had received from Captain J.R. Jones of HMS Lion, informing her that Wilfred had been manning a gun when he died, and that he had been buried at sea at 6pm on 1/6/1916, along with his Major and others who had died).