Name
Arnold Peacock
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
13/06/1940
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5502687
Hampshire Regiment
2/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
N.W. Extn. Grave 400.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
He was born in Surrey and at the time he enlisted was a resident of Hampshire. His Service Number was 5502687 and he served in the 2/4th Battalion of the Regiment. They were part of the 128 Brigade of 43 Division known as the Wessex Division.
They were stationed in Hitchin from May to September 1940 ready for rapid deployment in the event of a German invasion of the east coast.
He had gone to the Hitchin Swimming Pool with a friend although he could not swim. After a time his friend noticed that he was missing, and he was found drowned in the pool. He had no known relatives.
He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery in Grave 400 N.W. Ext
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘The House that Bartlett built’ by P. Douglas & P. Humphries, Herts Pictorial 18th June 1940
