Name
Henry James Peachey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/09/1916
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/8748
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born in 1871 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of John and Sarah Peachey later of Vanguard Street, Deptford. He married Frances Hilliard on 9 Feb 1901 in Greenwich and they lived at 39 Heston Street, Deptford, London with one son. He was a carman and coal porter.
Wartime Service
Initially enlisted at Lewisham, London on 19 Sep 1914 in the Army Service Corps as a driver, but was discharged as medically unfit due to severe varicose veins on 21 Oct 1914. He presumably re-enlisted with the Queen’s Own and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
