BORN HULL 17/10/1890. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM PEACH & ELEANOR ANN MONKMAN (1860-1935), AT 7 NEWPORT TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). BROTHER TO SARAH ELLEN PEACH. A RAILWAY RULLEYMAN, LIVING AT 5 WILLIAM STREET, PORTER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE MARRIED LILY HESTER HATFIELD, AT HULL, ON 25/12/1910. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN (TWO DIED IN INFANCY IN 1915 & 1916). THEY LIVED AT THIS 1918 ADDRESS (ABSENT MILITARY VOTERS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMER PRIVATE, 2128, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 23489, 50TH MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 11/10/1918, AGED 28.
HE IS BURIED AT NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL, GERMANY.
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Military Number:
23489
Rank:
Private
Date Died
11/10/1918
Place died:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Age:
28
