Notes
The Roll lists his address as Lincoln Road, Werrington. It inaccurately states he died on 13/4/1917.
(CWGC records that Private Hardy Whitwell, regimental number 14877, died aged 24 on 19/4/1917 serving in 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 7 of Arras Memorial in France.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Hardy was killed in action on 19/4/1917, and that his uncle Joseph was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that Hardy went to France on 31/8/1915, and that he was killed in action on 19/4/1917.
Hardy's birth was registered in 1893 in Peterborough District. On the 1901 census he was living with his grandmother Mary Whitwell at Brooks Cottages in Werrington, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1911 census Hardy was a live-in farm servant at Grace Bank in Whittlesey).