Frederick Herbert Peacock (1895 - 1914)

Born 1895 in King's Cross, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Died 15 Nov 1914 at about age 19 in Belgium

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Biography

Private Frederick Peacock served in the British Army in World War I
Service started:
Unit(s): 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Service ended: 1914

Private Frederick Peacock was killed in action during World War I.

Frederick was born in 1895 in Kings Cross, Middlesex.

He was the son of John and Eliza Peacock of the Penn, Angle Common, Soham and is commemorated at Soham on the gravestone of his father, John Peacock, who died in 1919.

In 1911 the family were resident in Soham, where both father and son were working as labourers. Frederick Herbert seems to have been known as Herbert in the family. His father was a Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner, having enlisted in the army in 1880, and had been in failing health by the time of his death.

Private Peacock (10105), 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in action on Sunday, 15th November 1914. Age 19. Commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 31 and 33 ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Military: "UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919"
   Original data: British and Irish Military Databases. The Naval and Military Press Ltd
   Ancestry Record 1543 #64893 (accessed 17 January 2024)
   Type of Casualty: Killed in action; Name: Frederick Herbert Peacock; Death Place: France and Flanders; Birth Place: Kings Cross, Middx.; Enlistment Place: Ely, Cambs; Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment; Residence: Soham, Cambs; Regimental Number: 10105; Rank: Private; Battalion: 1st Battalion; Death Date: 15 Nov 1914; Theatre of War: Western European Theatre.