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Edwin Robert Gilbert Peacock

17 August 2015 by SWM

E. R. G. Peacock
Service no. 3261
Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps, 17th Battalion, formerly 18320 Royal Fusiliers
Born at Southend, Essex; enlisted at Clapham
Died of wounds on 3 September 1918, at about age 27
CWGC: “Son of E. M. Peacock, 38 Gaskill Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Varennes Military Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Edwin Robert Gilbert Peacock, 20, was a stone mason. He boarded with the Smith family at 24 Lingham Street. Charles Smith, 50, was a stone mason from Portland, Dorset. His wife, Alice Selina, 53, was from Lambeth. They had two children: George Arthur, 19, a clerk, and Alice Mary Smith, 15. Alfred Dance, a 40-yea-old single painter, also boarded.

In 1901 Edwin Peacock was a 10-year-old and living at 13 Anns Road, Anns Terrace, Prittlewell in Essex. His 49-year-old father, Charles C. Peacock was a corporation dust inspector from Bethnal Green, east London, his mother, Ellen M. Peacock, 49, was born in St Pancras. Four sons were registered:
Walter S. Peacock, 19, was a furniture porter, born in Bermondsey
John H. Peacock, 15, was a bread baker, born in St Lukes, London
Albert E. Peacock, 13, worked for a fruiterer and greengrocer, born in Camberwell
Edwin R. G. Peacock, 10
Lottie Patrick, 4, described as granddaughter, also lived there, as did a boarder, Alfred Barfield, 70, born in Ipswich, Suffolk and “living on his own means”

Filed Under: P names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 27, DOW, France

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  • Died on 1 July 1916
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  • Listed on St Andrew’s War Memorial
  • Listed on St John’s War Memorial