ARTHUR JOHN PIPE
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.
Born: 1893, St. John’s, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 14th January 1894, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich – family home at 87, Kemball Street, Ipswich.
Died: 30th November 1918; age: 25; died of Broncho Pneumonia at No. 4 General Hospital, France.
Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – Friday, 13th December 1918 – Mrs. Elizabeth E. Pipe, of Britannia Road, Ipswich, has received news from the War Office, stating her husband, Gunner Arthur John Pipe, of the R.F.A., died in hospital in France, from the effects of broncho-pneumonia, on the 30th November. He was the only son of Mr. Ezra and Mrs. Lucy Pipe, of 53, Kemball Street, Ipswich, and was 25 years of age.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 876308.
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, ‘C’ Battery, 48th Brigade.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
LI.E.9.
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of E.E. Pipe, of 44, Croxton Road, Thetford, Norfolk.
CENSUS
1901 87, Kemball Street, Ipswich.
Arthur was 7 years old and living with his parents & sisters.
Ezra Pipe, 32, a Grocer’s Warehouseman, born Otley, Suffolk.
Lucy Pipe (nee Wilding), 30, born Barking, Suffolk.
Florence Elizabeth Pipe, 10, born London S.E.
Gertrude Adelaide Pipe, 2, born St. John’s, Ipswich.
1911 53, Kemball Street, Ipswich.
Arthur was 17 years old, a Milkman Salesman. He was living with his parents & sisters.
Ezra, 44, a Bottle Washer – Wine & Spirit Merchants.
Lucy, 41.
Gertie, 12.
Elsie Eliza Pipe, 10, born St. John’s, Ipswich.
On the 9th April 1917, at St. Mary’s Church, Bedingfield, Suffolk, 23 year old Arthur, a soldier of the R.F.A., at Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, married 23 year old Elizabeth Emma Elliott, a domestic nursemaid, born 1895, Bedingfield – daughter of Arthur Elliott, an agricultural labourer, and Sarah Ann Pipe (nee Rust), of Fleming Hall Road, Bedingfield.
Soldiers’ Effects to Elizabeth E. Pipe – widow.
Arthur is also remembered on the war memorial at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich and on his sister Gertrude’s headstone at Ipswich Old Cemetery, Section O, who died in January 1921, aged 22.
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