BORN BARROW-ON-HUMBER, LINCOLNSHIRE, ON 31ST MARCH 1892. SON OF ROBERT PEA (1856-1910) AND SARAH ANN SEWELL (1857-1907). BOTH PARENTS DECEASDED. HIS TWO BROTHERS, BARRETT AND PERCY PEA, AND SISTER, GINNY GRAY, ALL LIVED AT, 77, HAVELOCK STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL
HE MARRIED DAMARIS FANNY TOMPKINS (1893-1960), AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, HULL, ON 5TH APRIL 1915. THEY LIVED AT 8, HERON STREET, SELBY STREET (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 24, HERON STREET, HULL (1915 AND WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, GERTRUDE, BORN ON 19TH JANUARY 1916. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 35.5-37 INCH CHEST, AND OF GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT,
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 6TH SEPTEMBER 1915. TRAINED AT DALTON HOLME CAMP. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4623, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 18TH JULY 1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1916. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THOSE MISSING ON THE SOMME.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, WW1 MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD, HULL.
HIS WIDOW, DEMARIS FANNY, MARRIED WILLIAM ARTHUR HAMILTON, IN 1924 AND HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN. THEIR DAUGHTER, GERTRUDE, DIED IN 1999.
