HORACE EDWARD PIPER

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 5th May 2016 |

From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730

As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570

Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1918

Born: 1885, Kersey, Suffolk.

Died: 27th April 1918; age 32; KiA.

Occupation: with the Prudential Assurance Company, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Enlistment Location: Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Rank: Private; Service Number: G/69950

Regiment: Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, 10th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

The shell which killed Horace also killed John Cadwaladr Owen. In July 1923, their bodies were exhumed and identified by a cross on their respective graves before reburial at Ypres Town Cemetery Extension.

Grave Reference:

II.G.21.

Ypres Town Cemetery Extension,

West-Vlaanderen,

Belgium.

JOHN CADWALADR OWEN, a Private, 24913, of the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, 10^th Battalion, was killed in action by a shell, aged 21 years. He was born in Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, North Wales, the son of David William Owen, a farmer and Elizabeth Owen (nee Owen), of Braich-y-Saint, Criccieth. In 1916, John was an apprentice for the National Provincial Bank of England, Penmaenmawr branch, when he enlisted for military service.

Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of the late Hayward & Harriet Piper, of Kersey, Suffolk; husband of M.A.M. Piper, of 27, Finchley Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891 Kersey Street, Kersey, Suffolk.

Horace was 5 years old and living with his parents, siblings & stepbrother.

Hayward Piper, 44, a Post Master, born Kersey, Suffolk.

Harriet Piper (nee Fairweather) (1st marriage Clayton), 43, born Little Stonham, Suffolk.

Frederick William Clayton, 20, a Farm Labourer, born Stonham, Suffolk.

Ernest Harold Piper, 7, born Kersey.

Albertha Elizabeth Piper, 3, born Kersey.

1901 The Street, Kersey, Suffolk.

Horace was 16 years old, a Grocer’s Assistant. He was living with his widowed father, sister & stepsister.

Haywood, 54, a Post Master.

Sarah M.A. Clayton, 27, born Stonham.

Albertha, 13.

1911 27, Finchley Road, Ipswich.

Horace was 25 years old, a Grocer & Draper’s Assistant. He was a visitor to his future wife’s family.

Alfred John Bloomfield, 64, a Coach Builder’s Salesman, born Freston, Suffolk.

Abigail Bloomfield (nee Collins), 50, born Butley, Suffolk.

Stanley Alfred Bloomfield, 24, a Postman – General Post Office, born Ipswich.

Maud Abbie May Bloomfield, 17, a Milliner’s Assistant, born Ipswich.

Horace’s mother, Harriet Piper, died in July 1899, at the Post Office, Kersey.

His father, Haywood Piper, died in June 1908, at the Post Office, Kersey.

On the 3rd November 1917, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, Horace married Maud Abbie May Bloomfield, a milliner’s assistant, born 1894, Ipswich – daughter of Alfred John Bloomfield & Abigail Bloomfield (nee Collins), of 27, Finchley Road, Ipswich.