Notes
The Roll lists his address as "Late of Peterborough".
(CWGC records that Gunner Harold Meadows, regimental number 4981, died on 25/4/1916 serving in the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave 8.1.313 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. Harold's headstone in Broadway Cemetery records his date of birth as 22/6/1888 and his date of death as 25/4/1916. He was born in March, Cambridgeshire, the son of George and Elizabeth Meadows, with whom he was living in Broad Street, March on the 1891 census; his mother died in 1900. On the 1901 census Harold was living with his widowed father at 41 Lincoln Road, Peterborough. His father remarried in 1908. On the 1911 census Harold was living at 72 Russell Street in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Harold was serving in the 3/4th East Anglian Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery when he died. The report of the inquest that was printed in the Peterborough Advertiser on 29/4/1916 stated that Harold had enlisted three weeks earlier. He had come home on leave, apparently in good spirits, had taken tea with his father and then attended a dance. He was due to return to his unit the following day. On 26th April 1916 he was discovered to have hanged himself in an outhouse in Geneva Street in Peterborough. A verdict of suicide was returned. Six comrades from the RFA acted as bearers at his funeral. His address for Probate was 21 Cowgate, Peterborough).