Name
Ezra William Peters
22 March 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/03/1920
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
103280
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WOLVISTON (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD
South East of Church
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
THY WILL BE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Preston memorial, Not on the Wolviston Memorial, Durham
Pre War
Ezra William Peters was born on 22 March 1884 in Preston, Herts, the son of Thomas and Martha Peters and one of 15 children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Back Lane, Preston, Hitchin, Herts where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. By the 1901 Census he was living at The Stables, Offley Holes, Preston, Herts at the home Charles and Agnes Lawrence and working as a Groom Domestic.
He married Eliza Ann Ayton in Hartlepool on 18 July 1908 and by the 1911 Census they had two children, Thomas and Robert, and were living at Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire where he was working as a coachman. They were later to have three more children.
Prior to enlistment he was working as a Stud Groom for Miss Royds of Buckinghamshire.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 16 July 1915, aged 33, into the Royal Field Artillery and was posted to 56th Reserve Battery RFA. However, not long after his enlistment he started to suffer from a series of ailments that were to remain with him for the rest of his life. His military records show that due to prolonged Army Training he suffered from a double rupture, heart trouble and dyspepsia. He was discharged and transferred to Class Z reserve on 29 November 1919. He died four months later at home on 10 March 1920.
He is buried in St Peter's Churchyard, Wolviston, Durham.
Additional Information
His widow, Mrs E Peters, Church Row, Wolviston, Stockton-on-Tees, ordered his headstone inscription: "THY WILL BE DONE". Widow's address given as Church Row, Wolviston. Durham. A £10 grant was paid in January 1921, but there is no record of a pension.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.wolvistonboys.org.uk,
