PEACOCK, Albert



No.126428, Private, Albert PEACOCK
Aged 19


19th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died of his Wounds on Saturday, 30th March 1918


Albert Peacock was born in Ashen (Risbridge Q1-1899 4A:821), son of Albert and Julia PEACOCK (née PEACOCK).

1901 census...Aged 2, he was at Stours Farm, Ashen with his father Albert PEACOCK[38] horsekeeper; his mother Julia [36]; sisters Daisy [12] and Alice [9]; brother Joseph [5]. All were born in Ashen.

1911 census...Aged 12 , he was still in Ashen with his parents; brothers Joseph Lewis (farm labourer); sisters Edith Ellen [9], Dorothy Kate[7], Constance Mary [5], Hilda [3] and Julia May [10 months]. All the sisters were born in Ashen. His mother had borne 14 children, but 3 had died

His nephew Percy (son of Joseph Lewis Peacock) died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in 1943.. see here


He enlisted in Sudbury when resident in Clare .

His International Red Cross prisoner of war records say he died of gunshot wounds to the chest at the German Military Hospital and was buried by the Germans in grave 4875 in the Western Cemetery in Ghent. Being in the Machine Gun Corps, and taken by the Germans, it is not known where exactly he was wounded, or when. That detail is missing from his Red Cross record.
It was in the early days of the German Spring Offensive, when the Germans were advancing rapidly all along the front



photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission



Albert Peacock is buried in Ghent City Cemetery, grave B:8

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