STANLEY ARTHUR PECK

Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury newspaper Friday, 22nd February, 1918

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Registered at birth as ARTHUR STANLEY PECK

Born: 1895, Ipswich.

Died: 28th April 1917; age 22; died when a shell burst under the stretcher he was laid out on.

E.A.D.T. – Saturday, 9^th February 1918 – Mr. and Mrs. Peck, of 2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich, have just received information that their son, Private Arthur Stanley Peck, of the Suffolk Regiment, who was reported missing on the 28^th April last year, is presumed by the Army Council to have died on that date. Private Arthur Peck, who went ot France a few days after the declaration of war, had been previously wounded, but had returned to duty again. In a letter to his parents, Private Wolf, of the same regiment, who was wounded in both feet on the 28^th April last on the Arras Front to the left of the Oppy Road, and was taken to an advance dressing station on a stretcher, when a shell burst under the stretcher and killed him.” Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Peck has been a prisoner in Germany since the 26^th August 1914.

Residence: 2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein: 23rd August 1914.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 8606

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star + Clasp.

Memorial Reference:

Bay 4.

Arras Memorial,

Pas de Calais,

France.

Ipswich men remembered on ARRAS MEMORIAL 

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Charles Ernest & Sarah Jane Peck, of 2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1901   2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich.

Stanley was 6 years old and living with his parents and siblings.

Charles Ernest Peck, 34, a House Painter, born Wix, Essex.

Sarah Jane Peck (nee Rush), 27, born Ipswich.

Ernest Charles Peck, 7, born Ipswich.

Dorothy Jane Peck, 4, born Ipswich.

1911   Rowland Cottage, 2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich.

Arthur was 16 years old, a Tannery Labourer. He was living with his parents & siblings.

Charles, 43, a House Painter.

Sarah, 37.

Ernest, 17, a Tannery Labourer – W & A.J. Turner.

Dorothy, 14.

Cecil Gordon Peck, 8, born Ipswich.

Marguerite Evelyn Peck, 4, born Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Charles E. Peck – father.

In 1914, Arthur’s brother was reported missing:

E.A.D.T. – Saturday, 3^rd October 1914 – A MISSING SUFFOLK – Mr. Charles Ernest Peck, of 2, Beaconsfield Road, Ipswich, has received an intimation from the War Office that his son, Private Charles Ernest Peck, of the 2^nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, has been posted as missing since the engagement at Le Cateau on the 26^th August.

Charles Peck disembarked in France on the 13^th August 1914. On the 26^th August, he was taken as a Prisoner of War and sent to Sennelager, Paderborn, until the 13^th December 1918. As a Repatriated Prisoner of War, he arrived at Dover on the 14^th December 1918. Charles was discharged on the 17^th December 1918 – no longer fit for war service. He had a Gun Shot Wound to his right foot (wounded at Le Cateau – 26^th August 1914) and Rheumatism. Charles died in 1951, at Kesgrave, Suffolk.

A letter from The Front to his sister Marg:

A velvet bag with silk drawcord, bone rings and painted initials A.S.P made by Arthur Stanley Peck; presumably made when he was on active service.

250 x 270 mm. The reverse side of the bag. Stanley probably made the bag for his mother.

Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion:

The Battle of Arleux.

The 11^th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment as part of the 101^st Brigade, formed an attack on Roeux chemical works on the Northern edge of the town, just south of the railway line. At 4:27 on the 28^th of April 1917 the attack by the 11^th began, troops pushed forward but came under heavy machinegun fire which drove the men back. A small group pushed on into the quarry on the eastern edge of the chemical works, being unsupported. At nightfall, they returned with 3 prisoners. The opening barrage had failed to destroy the machinegun posts and the enemy trenches, causing the attack to fail. The emery counter-attacked from Roeux. taking Mount Pleasant wood being part of the Ceylon trench at 9:45 a.m. The Battalion took over 300 casualties. The same fate was to happen to the 7^th Battalion of the Suffolk regiment taking 190 casualties. 13 Ipswich men were killed on this day.

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