Name
Charles Jepps
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23651
Royal Berkshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
Charles was born in 1896 in Hitchin and his parents were Charles and Fanny (née Pateman) they marrieds in Hitchin in 1881.
In 1901 the family were living at 12 Church Yard, Hitchin. Present were both parents: Charles (52) and Fanny (42), Charles and working as a postman, having been appointed in 1897, and Fanny a greengrocer’s poulterer. Their children were: William (19) - also a postman, Emily E (17), Florrie (12), Abraham (10), Sarah (7) and Charles (5).
In 1911 the family were still living at 12 Church Yard in Hitchin. Of the parents only Fanny was present, recorded as head, married and working as a greengrocer he husband has not yet been found elsewhere . The census recorded that she had been married for 30 years with 7 children, of whom 3 had died. The children now present were Jane (25) and working as a greengrocer’s assistant, Abraham (20), Sarah (17), Charles (15) and working as a post office messenger, plus a lodger William Squires (22).
Charles Jepps (junior) was employed as an assistant postman in Letchworth in 1912, his father had retired as a postman in Hitchin in 1897.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Hitchin, Herts. and was living there when he enlisted in Pewsey, Wilts.
Wartime Service
Charles was formerly 21818, Somerset Light Infantry, but was killed in action on 28 October 1916 with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment on 28 October 1916
Additional Information
After his death £2 13s 9d pay owing was authorised to go to his brother, William, on 28/July 1917. Later, a war gratuity of £3 was authorised to be paid to him on 20 October 1919.
His father Charles Jepps applied for a dependant’s pension in January 1919.
His pension cards record Charles Jepps as his father, and as his dependant, living at Apsley End, Shillington, Beds. He was awarded a pension of 5s a week from 6 November 1918. The records were amended to Fanny Jepps, after the death of her husband.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
