Name
Robert Pedder
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/07/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36420
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HODDESDON CEMETERY
18.P.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born on 28 May 1895 and baptised on 4 Aug 1895 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of James and Martha Pedder and was living in 1 Salisbury Villas, White’s Road, Hoddesdon in 1901 and in 4 Foresters Cottages, Century Road, Hoddesdon in 1911 as a farm boy.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 6072 Hertfordshire Regiment and died in the Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, North London.
Additional Information
Brother of Sapper Arthur John Pedder who was killed in action on 12 May 1917 and who is also commemorated on some of these memorials. SDITGW records that he was born in the Isle of Man but this is not true.
Robert is buried in a family grave, the headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
ALSO OF
PTE. R. PEDDER, ROYAL BERKS REGT.
SON OF THE ABOVE (Martha Peddar)
DIED JULY 21ST 1918, AGED 23 YEARS
"A REST WELL WON"
PTE. R. PEDDER, ROYAL BERKS REGT.
SON OF THE ABOVE (Martha Peddar)
DIED JULY 21ST 1918, AGED 23 YEARS
"A REST WELL WON"
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland, Jonty Wild
