Name
ARTHUR SIDNEY PERRY
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235294
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 108 to 111.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt War Memorials, Not on the Waltham Cross War Memorials, Waltham Abbey Church Memorial, Holly Trinity Church War Memorial Cross, Bromley Common, Bromley, Kent
Pre War
Arthur Sidney PERRY was born in Waltham Cross/Cheshunt, Hertfordshire (Depending on the Document) in 1884, son of Charles William Perry an employee at the Royal Gun Powder Factory at Waltham Abbey, Essex, and Mariea Harriet Perry (nee Gowler). One of nine children although one died in infancy.
He was Baptised in the Parish of Waltham Cross, Herts in 1884.
1891 Census records Arthur aged 7, living with his parents, brothers, Warrington (19), Charles (14), sisters, Maria (16), Amy (10) and Ellen (4), in Sydney Road, Cheshunt, Herts,
1901 Census, the family are still living in Sidney Road, Cheshunt, Herts, Arthur 17, is employed as a Machinist at the Cordite Factory.
1911 Census, Arthur aged 27, is single, employed as a Labourer at the Royal Gun Powder Factory, Waltham Abbey, still living with his Parents, and sister Ada (17) at 13 Station Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Arthur married Mable Ada Fairbrother, the daughter of Thomas Edward and Emily Jane Fairbrother of Finchley, Middx, on 5th June 1911, at St Johns Church, Muswell Hill, Middx. They went on to have three children, Doris Mary (B 1912), Reginald Douglas (B 1915) and Margaret Joan (B 1918).
At the time Arthur enlisted we believe he was living at 20 Jackson’s Road, Bromley Common, Bromley, Kent.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Bromley, Kent, posted to the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, with the service number 400235, later transferred to the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) and issued with the new service number 253294.
Seeing action on the Western Front. He Was Killed in Action on 2nd December 1917, aged 33, he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium. Panels 108 to 111. At the time of his death he was serving with the 2nd Battalion, KOYLI.
Additional Information
Mable received a Grant of £5, and a widow’s pension of 29/7 (£1-09-07) a week from 5th August 1918, and his effects of £7-08-01, pay owing and his war gratuity of £6-10-00.
SDITGW records “FORMERLY 28292 SUFFOLK REGIMENT” we have found no information to confirm this.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
