BORN NEWARK, NOTTS, 1884. SON OF JOHN AND REBECCA PEGG, WHO RAN THE BOAT HOUSE INN, NEWARK. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. EMPLOYED AS A RULLEYMAN. HE MARRIED HILDA KNAGGS IN 1906. HIS WIFE HILDA 6 DAVIDS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET (1911 CENSUS) & AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 33. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS WIDOW HILDA CHESTER.
BURIED: Canada Farm Cemetery, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL WITH HIS BROTHER, GUARDSMAN, ARTHUR PEGG, 13465, COLDSTREAM GUARDS, DIED 02/02/1916, AGED 30.
First name:
FRED
Military Number:
250681
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
31/10/1917
Place died:
Canada Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
33
