Name
Clive Pepper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/08/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36417
Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 45.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
Arthur Clive was born in 1897 in Heath and Reach, Leighton Buzzard to Arthur Pepper and Mary Ann (nee Odell). Arthur’s father died in 1900 and his mother had to seek help in paying the rent etc. Arthur had 5 sisters and 1 older brother.
At some time Arthur came to reside in Harpenden, his Mother later lived at Leyton Road, Harpenden.
Wartime Service
Arthur Clive joined the Hertfordshire Regiment as Private 4782 around March 1915. He was transferred to 6th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment as Private 36417 and later another transfer took him to 1/ 4 Battalion.
The Berkshires were involved in the Battles of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) and Arthur was killed in action on 7 Aug 1917. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £10 10s and arrears of £4 2s 7d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
