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The Roll lists no address for him.
(CWGC records that Gunner John Thomas Wilson, regimental number 177959, died aged 33 on 28/5/1917 serving in 'A' Battery, 52nd Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave I.F.4 at Klein Vierstraadt British Cemetery in Belgium. They record him as the son of John and Emma Wilson of 21 Silver Street, Ely, and the husband of Louisa Alice Yallop (formerly Wilson) of 5 Essex Road, Lowestoft.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Louisa Alice was his legatee.
On the 1911 census John had been aged 28, living with his wife Louisa and their 3 children at 21 Henry Street in Peterborough; John stated he was born in Ely and had been married 6 years. His marriage to Louisa Alice Mitchell had been registered in Mutford District in 1905. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents John and Emma at Walpole Lane in Ely; they gave his place of birth as Prickwillow).