Arthur Stafford Peters

Arthur Stafford Peters

Second Lieutenant, London Regiment, 13th Kensington Battalion

Also London Regiment (City of London Rifles), attd. 1st/6th Battalion

Killed in action on 30 November 1917

Remembered at Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, Nord, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911, the Peters family lived at 53 Elms Road, Clapham. Arthur Stafford Peters, then 23, was an insurance clerk. His father, Charles Furness Peters, 48, was an actuary for the Collecting Friendly Society. Charles was originally from Liverpool; his wife Florence Jane Peters, 45, was from Bristol. Their five children were:

Charles Hector Peters, 25, an insurance clerk, born in Walworth

Arthur Stafford Peters, 23, an insurance clerk, born in Clapham

Florence Norah Peters, 17, born in Clapham

William Herbert Peters, 12, born in Clapham

Eric Ellis Peters, 1, born in Clapham

The household lived in seven rooms and employed a live-in servant, Emma Deverlux, 23, a single woman from Shefford, Bedford.