Notes
The Roll lists his address as 307 Cromwell Road, Peterborough. The 1921 version of the Roll had recorded his date of death as 14th Oct 1914; this 1994 version correctly records it as 14th October 1915.
(CWGC records that Private Walter James Fairman, regimental number 14359, died age 20 on 14/10/1915 while serving in A Company of 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave H.18 at Point 110 Old Military Cemetery at Fricourt in France. They record him as the son of James and Mary Ann Fairman of Croydon and Carshalton in Surrey. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Walter died on 14/10/1915, and that he had been born in Fulham. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Mary was his sole legatee. Although CWGC records his age as 20 when he died, he was actually only 16 years old at that time. His birth was registered in Fulham in 1899; he was baptised on 9/7/1899 at St Matthew's Church in Fulham. On the 1901 census he was a year old, living with his parents James and Mary at 5 Dalebury Road in Fulham; on the 1911 census he was aged 11, living with his mother at 307 Cromwell Road in Peterborough; he was her only son. His Medal Index Card records that he went to France 26/7/1915. In the report of his death printed on 23/10/1915 in the Peterborough Advertiser, it was stated that he had been shot by a sniper while repairing parapets, and that he had enlisted in September 1914).