Joseph Edwin Swann Pepper
View Joseph Edwin Swann on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
52620
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Service:
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Origin:
Date of birth:
22 March 1874
Date of death:
03 May 1917
Age at Death:
43
Known information
Joseph Edwin Swann Pepper was born in Hinckley on 22 March 1874. His father, Edwin Sewell Pepper, was a master silversmith and jeweller. His mother was named Dorcas and while Joseph was a child she was committed to an Institute. So Joseph was brought up in Barrowden by his grandparents, Anthony Pepper and his wife. He became an assistant schoolmaster and spent some time living in South Africa. Joseph enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers and went to France in 1917. He took part in the attack at Bullecourt near Arras, when he was killed by a shell on 3 May 1917. He has no known grave and is remembered on Bay 3 of the Arras Memorial and also in Barrowden.
With thanks to Christine Brundsden for extra information.
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More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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