Clement John Piper was born in 1887 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Mr. Piper was trained at Saltley College, Birmingham, and came to Western Australia in 1913. He joined the staff of the Modern School early in 1914 as sports master. He played for a strong Training College team in 1914.
Enlisting in November 1914, he was wounded in the head at Gallipoli, contracted Typhoid and returned to Australia in January, 1916. He rejoined with the 44th Battalion and was given leave in England towards the end of the war formally to study teaching methods.
Married after the war to Annie Loise in Wolverhampton in July 1919, he returned to Australia later in the year and resumed what became a very successful teaching career. Appointed Head Teacher at Mundijong in 1923, he refereed a number of association fixtures there in 1926. In 1936 he was appointed first assistant master and mathematical master at the Eastern Goldfields High School, Kalgoorlie.
He enlisted in World War 2 and served in Australia. Ill health caused him to retire as Head Teacher of Northam High School in 1951. Clement Piper passed away in Perth in 1959.