BORN HULL 1884. SON OF CHARLES PEEPS (1846-1927) & EMILY CHILVERS (1849-1900). HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 22/07/1916, AGED 32. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/08/1916. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WALTER CHILVERS PEEPS 11/398. Born in April 1884, Walter was the seventh of nine children to Charles and Emily Peeps of 9 Charlotte’s Terrace, Clarendon Street, Hull (War pension address). A Ship’s Cook before the war, Walter enlisted at City Hall on 8th September 1914 and joined the fledgling 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. After serving in Egypt over Christmas 1915 the Pals arrived on the Western Front the following March when Walter was almost immediately hospitalised with a septic leg. He remained out of the line until 13th May when he rejoined his unit. He was wounded during the Somme campaign and evacuated to the 54th (2nd London) Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds on 22nd July 1916. Walter Peeps is buried at Merville Communal Cemetery; he was 32 years old.
