Name
Arthur Perry
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
14073
Wiltshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FONTAINE-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
C. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, United Reformed Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Arthur Perry was born in 1889 in Dunmow, Essex to Henry and Harriet Perry and they were living in Great Dunmow in 1891. They had moved to Bishop's Stortford by 1901 and his father was the keeper of a Common Lodging House in South Street, Bishop's Stortford which housed 16 boarders as well as the family. On the 1911 Census, he was living with his family at Riverside, Causeway, Bishops Stortford (where his father was a lodging house keeper) and working as a Grocers Assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Oxford and served in the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment in France from 21 September 1915. He was killed in action during the advance in Picardy in the final days of the war.
He formerly served in the Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under service no. 14770.
Additional Information
His father Henry received £27 4s 10d which included £24 war gratuity. Brother to William Perry also named on the Town Memorial and the United Reformed Church Memorial, Bishops Stortford. N.B. Some transcribed records give the incorrect Reg. No. 14023. The original is clearly 14073.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
