Arthur Pedrick was born on 2 June 1892 at Plymouth, the second youngest of six children of Engineer Commander (later Rear-Admiral) John Robert James Pedrick, and his wife Mary Jane (née Webber). An older brother, Frederick John, also served in the Royal Navy, reaching the rank of Engineer Captain.

Arthur joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet in May 1905 attending Osborne and Dartmouth and was appointed Midshipman in January 1910.  After Midshipman’s time in HMS TEMERAIRE, HMS BEAGLE, HMS BELLONA, and HMS WARRIOR, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in Torpedo Boats and then the battleship HMS DOMINION and the destroyer HMS REDPOLE.  In January 1914 he was noted as volunteering for Engineering duties and for service in submarines.  Following promotion to Lieutenant in December 1914, he was appointed in turn to the cruisers HMS ANTRIM, PENELOPE and CONQUEST for Engineering duties before joining HMS DOLPHIN ‘for HMS K9’ on 14 September 1916.  K9 was launched in November 1916 and commissioned in May 1917, and he was re-appointed to the cruiser HMS FEARLESS, serving as depot ship for some of the K class, in March 1917. 

Lieutenant Arthur Pedrick died while on leave on 7 January 1918. The cause of death according to his service record was an ’embolus of the large intestine’.  He was buried at Portsmouth (Highland Rd) Cemetery.

He left a widow, Gladys Elizabeth (née Westaway), whose father was also an Engineer Rear-Admiral, and whom he had married in January 1916, and two sons. The elder, Peter Gordon, was killed in action in 1943 while serving as a Lieutenant (E) in HMS CHARYBDIS.  The younger, Arthur Paul, served briefly in the Navy before becoming a patent examiner and later, a prolific, if somewhat eccentric, inventor.