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{{Personnel
|id=1553
|Surname and forenames=Pepperell John Kirkham
|Army number=4459406
|Rank=Private.
|Age=22 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939.  Posted to the ? 9th Battalion.  Posted to the ? 12th Battalion 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.  Taken Prisoner of War - probably on or around 20/5/1940.  DIED whilst a Prisoner of War 21/4/41.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet known but probably 1919.
|Company/Battery=B Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not yet known.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 21-Apr-41 while a Prisoner of War - cause of death not yet ascertained.  Initially interred - possibly at the PoW Camp Cemetery. 
Re-buried 27/11/1948 in Grave 7.A.7. Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery.  His headstone inscription reads: TILL WE MEET AGAIN.
|Home address=Son of Charlie O. and Maggie A. Pepperell, North Shields.  
|Source table=1TS
|Prisoner of War=Yes - details of Stalag (probably Malbork) and PoW number not yet known.
}}


Cause of his death requires investigation - possibly via the Red Cross.