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Pte. Frederick Arthur Piper
British Army 15th (Service) Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Catherington, Hampshire
(d.7th October 1916)
Frederick Piper was born on the 1st March 1891 in Catherington a small village in Hampshire, the second son of William and Fanny (nee Downs) Piper. Prior to his enlistment in the Hampshire Regiment he was working as a farm labourer in Denmead, Hampshire. He was killed in action 6 weeks after his younger brother George was killed also in action. Frederick is buried in the Warlencourt British Cemetery.
Frederick and George were the sons of my great grandfather William Piper by his second marriage and step-brothers to my grandfather Herbert William Piper.