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The Roll lists his address as 16 Eastgate. It inaccurately recorded his surname as "Rippon" and that he died on 2/1/1918; his surname was actually Rippin, and he died on 2/1/1919.
(CWGC records that Arthur Harold Rippin, regimental number 203063, died aged 22 on 2/1/1919, having served in 22nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment. They record him as the son of Billson and Bridget Rippin of Peterborough, and that he is buried in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough.
Arthur Harold Rippin is buried in Block 2 of Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. His headstone states that he died on 2/1/1919 "as a result of privation and neglect when a Prisoner of War in Germany". His birth was registered in Peterborough in 1897. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Billson and Bridget Rippin at 22 Eastgate in Peterborough. On the 1911 census they lived at 16 Eastgate. Arthur's Army pension file records that he enlisted on 27/11/1916 as a Private in the 1/7th Battalion Middlesex Regiment under regimental number 7743. He was posted overseas on 13/2/1917. He transferred to the 17th Battalion on 2/3/1917, when his regimental number became 203063. On 28/4/1917 he sustained a gunshot wound to his back and left forearm and was taken Prisoner of War. He was hospitalized for about 7 months. He was then held at Langensalza Prisoner of War Camp in Germany, where he developed a cough in April 1918 that progressed to tuberculosis. He was repatriated to the UK on 18/8/1918, was honourably discharged from the Army on 16/10/1918. and was awarded the Silver War Badge serial number B27103. Arthur died on 2/1/1919 from tuberculosis, and was buried in Block 2 of Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. At the time of his death, the Army did not notify the War Graves Commission, who therefore had no record of him for more than 90 years. However, following a successful submission to them in July 2015 he was accepted onto their casualty registers). JK
Arthur is commemorated in the Peterborough Book of Remembrance, but under the incorrect spelling "Rippon" and the wrong date of death "2/1/1918".