Name
Albert Edwin Pepper
13/05/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
18827
King's Royal Rifle Corps
21st Bn.
'B' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on the Somme, France.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Goffs Oak Memorials,
Not on the Cheshunt Memorials,
Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Albert Edwin PEPPER was born in Walworth, London/Surrey, on 13th May 1891, son of Frederick Henry Pepper, a Butcher and Mary Ann Pepper (nee Todd). One of twelve children although three died.
Albert was baptised on 21st June 1891, at St. Stephens, Walworth, Lon/Surrey.
He attended Flint Street School, starting in April 1896, aged 4.
1901 Census records Albert aged 9, living with his parents, three sisters, Rose (18), Ada (15), Frances (12) and brother Arthur (4), at Huntingdon Buildings, 57 Bethnal Green, London, Middx.
1911 Census, Albert (19) is employed as a Clerk, living with his parents, three sisters, Mary Ann Eliza (32), Frances (22), Eleanor (10) and brother Arthur (14), at 9 Faunce Street, St Mary Newington, Lon/Surrey. The family had a boarder Edward James Brooks.
Albert married Barbara Selina Owen the daughter of John James and Barbara Hannah Owen of Hoxton, London, on 23rd January 1916 at Saint James the Lees, Bethnal Green, Lon/Middx.
His mother Mary Ann Pepper passed away in late 1916, in Hackney, London, Middx.
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted in Hackney, posted to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and issued with the service number 18827. On completion of his training, he was sent to France seeing action on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on 15th September 1916, the first date of the Battle of the Flers-Courcelette (Battle of the Flers-Courcelette 15th – 22nd September 1916), at the time of his death he was serving with 'B' Company, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
He has no known Grave; and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on the Somme. Pier and Face 13A and 13B.
Additional Information
Barbara received a widow’s pension of 13/9 a week from 23rd April 1917, and his effects of 4/- pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
Barbara remarried in January 1921 to Herbert Bray, a Metropolitan Police Officer, Herbert served with the 33rd Divisional Signals Company during the war.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
