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
No Service Record was found for Arthur, he may have enlisted soon after the declaration of the Great War in Aug 1914 at Oxford as Private 14770 in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was transferred to 7th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment as Private 14703 and went to France on 2 Jan 1915 with the Battalion as part of 79 Brigade 26 Division.
This Division was transferred to the Salonika Front in Nov 1915. The Division took part in the Battle of Doiran in (Aug 1916) where the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry captured Horseshoe Hill, and in 1917 the First Battle of Doiran 24-25 Apr 1917 and second Battle (8-9 May 1917). The Division remained in Salonika while 7th Wiltshires returned to France arriving in Jul 1918 joining 150 Brigade in 50th (Northumbrian) Division to take part in the Battles of the Hindenberg Line (12 Sep to 12 Oct 1918) including St Quentin canal (Sep 1918), Beaurevoir and Cambrai (3-9 Oct 1918) and pursuit to the Selle (9-12 Oct 1918). Arthur was Killed in Action on 6 Nov 1918.
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
