Pepper, William Bramwell
Captain
3rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died of wounds on 4 August 1916 (aged 32)
Buried:
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France (Grave I. A. 32)
Commemorated:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Credence Table in Helen’s Bay Church of Ireland Church (St John Baptist)
BIOGRAPHY
It is recorded in the CWGC Debt of Honour website that Captain William Bramwell Pepper was a son of Lieutenant Colonel G.N. and Mrs Pepper of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
William Bramwell Pepper was born on 11 September 1883, and he was a son of George Nicholson Pepper and Ellen Pepper (nee Churchill) who were married on 10 September 1867 in St James, Clapham Park, Surrey. They had at least nine children:
Kate Ellen (born 2 March 1870; baptised 24 September 1870)
George Robertson (born 6 February 1872)
Margaret Louisa Amijrelda (born 17 October 1873; married Albert Frijling on 30 April 1902)
Mary Churchill (born 24 July 1875; married Andrew McKaig in India on 23 November 1900)
Charles Edward (born 22 March 1877)
Norah Willington (born January 1879; baptised 22 May 1879 in Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire)
John Willington born 19 January 1882; served in the Great War)
William Bramwell (born 11 September 1883)
Rosa (born 20 March 1890)
Their father, Lieutenant Colonel George Nicholson Pepper, died on 31 October 1901. He was born in Rathcormac, County Cork on 21 April 1833.
During the Great War, Captain William Bramwell Pepper served with the 3rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and, for a time, was stationed at Grey Point Fort, Helen’s Bay.
Captain William Bramwell Pepper was 32 when he died of wounds on 4 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme and he was buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France. There is an inscription on his CWGC headstone:
GOD MAKE US WORTHY
OF HIS SACRIFICE
His brother, Major J.W. Pepper of The Avenue, Milford Hill, Salisbury, Wiltshire was the family point of contact for the CWGC.
Captain William Bramwell Pepper is commemorated on the Credence Table in Helen’s Bay Church of Ireland Church (St John Baptist):
THIS
CREDENCE TABLE WAS
ERECTED BY MAJOR F G HILL QC RGA
SEPTEMBER 1914 TO JULY 1919
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE
OFFICERS WHO SERVED UNDER HIM AT GREY POINT
BATTERY AND GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING
AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
CAPT W B PEPPER LIEUT C D D SWAIN
LIEUT D O’RORKE ALSO LIEUT C V DARNELL
LIEUT L H McKISACK ATTACHED RFC
ATTACHED INFANTRY OFFICERS
CAPT W A VERSCHOLE ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS
LIEUT O B MACAUSLAND INDIAN ARMY
LIEUT W LA NAUZE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES