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L/Cpl. Herbert George Peaty

British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment

from:Queensferry, West Lothian

(d.20th February 1915)

Herbert Peaty was born in 1893 in Queensferry, West Lothian. In the 1911 census, he was a 17 year old based at Fort Regent, Jersey with the rank of drummer. At some point, he was posted to India and returned in December 1914 landing at Le Havre.

He was killed on 20th of February 1915 retaking a trench captured by the Germans and was, by this time, a Lance Corporal. His body was never recovered but is remembered on the Menin Gate and also on a war memorial in Saxmundham, a small market town in Suffolk.



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