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Remembrance
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Private Samuel Percy PECK.
29810. 6th (Pioneer) Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 243820 the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Louie Peck, of 26, Brookfield Rd., Arnold, Notts. Killed 27 October 1918. Born Arnold (Notts), Enlisted Hucknall, Resided Arnold. Buried BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX. Antony Ball (<antony.ball@ntlworld.com>) has researched all the names on the Arnold and Daybrook Memorial, and has kindly forwarded the photo of Private Peck for use on this website. |
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Captain Lawrence PEEL 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Born at Clitheroe 18 September 1884, 3rd son of William Peel, J P, of Knowlmere Manor, Yorkshire. Husband of the Hon. Mrs. L. Peel (now the Hon. Mrs. Martin, of The Brand, Loughborough, Leicestershire). 2nd Lieutenant 10 October 1903; Lieutenant 18 February 1905; Adjutant 1 December 1906 - 1 March 1910; Captain 11 February 1911. Killed 23/24 October 1914 whilst leading his cycle company in a night attack near Ypres. Mentioned in Despatches. Aged 30. Commemorated on Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL. Margaret Brenchley of the Slaidburn Village Archive (<mabrenchley@btinternet.com>) has forwarded information which relates to the death Captain Peel. The information is taken from local sources, and forms part of the commemoration of the start of the First World War by the parish of Slaidburn. The page is in PDF format. Captain Peel was educated at Winchester College. The following information on Captain Peel appears on the Winchester College website, winchestercollegeatwar. Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist, has kindly allowed us to use this information. The photo on the left is also provided by kind permission of winchestercollegeatwar website. "Captain Peel was the son of William Peel of Knowlmere Manor, Clitheroe, Yorks. His mother was Meliora Sybella Peel, the daughter of Henry Phillpotts (Com 1819, Coll. 1820). He was one of four brothers, all of whom were Wykehamists. He entered the School from Horris Hill, became a House Prefect and in his last year played for O.T.H. VI. From Winchester he went to Sandhurst and passed out with distinction in 1903, being gazetted to the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. He served for several years in India and South Africa and became Adjutant of his battalion in 1907. At the outbreak of war he was with his regiment in Guernsey and proceeded to the front within a few weeks in command of the Divisional Cyclist Company of the 7th Division. He was reported missing on the night of October 23rd-24th 1914, after an attempt to capture some farm buildings on the Zaanvoorde Ridge near the Ypres-Menin Road. His name was mentioned in one of Lord French’s earliest Despatches. Captain Peel married in 1912 the Hon. Ethel Laura Brooks and had a son, Geoffrey William Peel, who came to Winchester as a War Exhibitioner (H, 1927-1932). Cyclist companies began to be formed in the summer of 1914. Their primary task was reconnaissance. However, once trench warfare set in they took on numerous other tasks: manning observation posts, traffic control, sniping, repairing trenches, helping to set up divisional schools – the division’s ‘odd job men’. He married in 1912, at St George’s, Hanover Square, London, the
Hon. Ethel Laura Brooks, daughter of the 2nd Baron Crawshaw. They had
a son, Geoffrey who came to Winchester as a War Exhibitioner (H1927-1932)." |
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Lieutenant Colonel William
Ralph PEEL, DSO & 2 Bars W R Peel joined the 6th Battalion in October 1914 as a 2nd Lieutenant. By July 1915, when the Battalion landed in Mudros Bay he was a Captain, and Adjutant to Lieutenant-Colonel E H Chapman. On 7 August 1915 he was wounded during the Suvla Bay landings. In January 1916 he was in temporary command of the Battalion (still as a Captain). 7 February 1916 saw the Battalion, including Captain Peel, in Alexandria. By 17 July 1916 the Battalion had moved to the Western Front, at Agny. In June 1917, now with the rank of Major, he was wounded again. Peter Etherington (<Peter@etheringtonp.freeserve.co.uk>) provides the following information on this Officer;- "I have traced Colonel Peel in the Green Howards Gazette. He had two DSO's by mid 1918 when serving as a Major in the 6th Battalion. He then tranferred to the West Yorks.......". Peter Etherington subsequently obtained the following information from the London Gazette of 2 April 1919;- "T./Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) William Ralph Peel, Awarded a 2nd Bar to the Distinguished Service Order. D.S.O., 6th Bn., York. R., attd. l/10th Bn., Manch. R. (D.S.O. gazetted 4th June, 1917.)(1st Bar gazetted 16th September, 1918.)" There is no mention of Colonel Peel in M L Ferrar's "Officers of the Green Howards, 1688 - 1931". |
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Lieutenant Richard Herbert
PHAYRE 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Eldest son of Lt. Col. R. Phayre, O.B.E., D.L., and Mrs. Frances Anne Phayre, of "Belgaum," Woking, Surrey. Killed 26 October 1914. Aged 24. Commemorated Panel 33, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Born at Famborough, Hants., 31st March, 1890, son of Lieut.- Col. Richard Phayre, O.B.E., late 19th Foot. 2nd Lieut., 11th December, 1909 ; Lieut., 1st April, 1911. Went to Belgium with the 2nd Battn. in October, 1914. Killed near Gheluvelt in the 1st battle of Ypres, 27th October, 1914. "He was a young officer of great promise, keenly interested in his profession and his regiment. His younger brother, Lieut. C. F. Phayre, Royal Munster Fusiliers, was killed on the 27th August " (G.H.G.). Richard Phayre's photo, and the accompanying biographical notes, were kindly supplied by Paul Stevens, Repton School's Librarian and Archivist. The history of Repton School, and further details of the school, can be found on www.repton.org.uk/history-of-repton. Notes from Repton School archives;- "Born March 31st 1890, the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel R. Phayre, O.B.E., D.L., and Mrs. Frances Anne Phayre, of "Belgaum," Woking, Surrey. ?Mitre 1904 - 1908 ?Royal Military College, Sandhurst ?2nd Yorkshire Regiment, 1909 ?Lieutenant, 2nd Yorkshire Regiment. France, 8/14. ?Killed in Action at Ypres 26/10/14 aged 24 ?YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Richard Phayre left Repton School in 1904. (Richard Phayre's younger brother, C F Phayre, - school leaver 1905, was killed on 27 August 1914 serving with the Royal Munster Fusiliers.) There is also a photo of Lieutenant Phayre in that of the 2nd Battalion's Officers in 1914. |
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Lieutenant Percy Montague
PHILLIPS. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 September 1916. Buried PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE. The following information on Lieut. Phillips was provided by Bob Coulson. "Percy Phillips sailed with the 13th Battalion as they set out on “The great adventure” from Southampton, landing at Le Havre on June 6th 1916. In July the battalion took over trenches in the Maroc sector and remained in this area until moving into the Loos sector on September 11th 1916. In the area of the Village Line and Duke Street the battalion carried out several trench raids and it was during one of these that Lt Percy Montague Phillips was killed in action on September 25th 1916 exactly one year to the day that the first Battle of Loos had begun." A much fuller biography of Lieutenant Phillips, with especial emphasis on his school days, can be read on the pages of The Bancroftian Network. |
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Lieutenant Q/Master Edward
PICKARD Born at Bradford 4th February, 1873, son of George Pickard of Bradford. Pte., 16th October. 1891 ; Lce.-Corpl, 1st December, 1891 ; Corpl, 2nd June, 1892 ; Sergt., 12th August, 1895 ; Cr.-Sergt 12th October, 1896 ; Sergt.-Major, 1st October, 1903; Hon. Lieut. and Qr.-Mr., 28th July, 1909 ; Hon. Capt., 4th June, 1917; Hon. Major 3rd June, 1918 ; Major and Qr.-Mr., 8th August, 1918; Lieut.-Col. 5th November, 1927 ; retired, 16th February, 1928. Served in the Boer War, 1899-1902, and was present in the operations near Colesberg in January, 1900. In the march along the Modder River, including the Relief of Kimberley, the actions at Paardeberg, Kitchener's Kop, Poplar Grove, and Driefontein, and occupation of Bloemfontein. In the advance on Dewetsdorp and action at Leuukop. In the march to Pretoria and actions at Brandfort, Vet and Zand Rivers, Kroonstadt and Johannesburg. In the advance eastwards and actions at Diamond Hill and Belfast (mentioned in despatches, medal for distinguished conduct in the field. Queen's medal and 6 clasps. King's medal and 2 clasps). Awarded the King's Coronation medal, 1911. In the war of 1914-18 served as Qr. Master to the 2nd Battn., and was present at all the operations in which it was engaged, which included the 1st battle of Ypres, 1914, battles of Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Givenchy and Loos in 1915, the Somme, July to September, 1916, Arras, and 3rd battle of Ypres in 1917, St. Quentin, March and April, 1918, Ypres, April and May, Cambrai, 2nd battle of Le Cateau, Selle River and the Sambre, 1st to llth November, 1918 (twice mentioned in despatches, bronze star and clasp, Belgian Croix de Guerre, promoted to Captain and Major, granted higher rate of pay, silver and bronze medals). O.B.E., 3rd June, 1923. Served in Ireland with 3rd Battalion during the rebellion. "Major Pickard came to France with the 2nd Battn. and was one of the few of any rank who served continuously with it from the beginning of the war to the Armistice, and his services are not likely to be forgotten by his comrades. The rest of the staff of the Battalion was changed times without number, but Major Pickard remained a tower of strength to the many newcomers and a very present help in time of trouble to his comrades (Regtl. History of the War). Died at Nottingham, 17th July, 1928. |
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Lance Corporal Edmund George
PRENTICE, MM. 38516. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ernest Edmund Robert and Margaret Robinson Prentice, of 92, Redcar Rd., South Bank, Yorks. Killed 6 May 1918. Aged 20. Born Hartlepool, Enlisted South Bank. Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL. "Jim" of the North East War Memorials Project (<jampas@btopenworld.com>) has kindly forwarded the attached photo, which comes from a contemporary in-house magazine of the Smith's Dock Company. |
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Lieutenant Christopher
Butler PRIOR-WANDESFORDE 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Capt. R. H. and Mrs. Prior-Wandesforde, of Castlecomer House, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Killed 27 June 1917. Aged 20. The following information on Lieut. Prior-Wandesforde was provided by Bob Coulson. "Christopher Prior-Wandesforde was born on December 15th 1896 at Castlecomer in County Kilkenny and was educated at Mourne Grange in County Down followed by Rugby School. He passed into Trinity College at Cambridge in March of 1915 but instead of entering college volunteered for active service and gained his commission on March 31st 1915. He joined the 4th battalion later in the year in the Ypres Salient and in early 1916 was involved in the “Operations at the Bluff” to the south east of Ypres. It was September before the 4th battalion entered the Somme offensive where they saw action around High Wood and Eaucourt L’Abbaye where 2nd Lt Prior-Wandesforde was wounded in action. By now promoted to Lieutenant, Christopher Prior-Wandesforde fought during the Battle of Arras in April of 1917 and in June was in the line at the Hindenburg Support. On June 27th the battalion came under a gas attack and although badly affected himself, Lt Prior-Wandesforde worked for two hours in rescuing others from a gassed dugout. The extra effort involved in his actions caused the gas to penetrate his system and he died from the effects later in the day June 27th 1917 aged 20 in No 49 Casualty Clearing Station. After his death his captain wrote, “His was one of the sunniest natures I have ever met and no danger or difficulty seemed to damp his spirits for more than a few minutes. He was the very embodiment of charity and I have never heard him say an unkind word of anybody. After he was gassed he spent the greater part of two hours looking after his men and getting them out of danger”. He was the son of Richard Henry and Florence Prior-Wandesforde of Castlecomer House in County Kilkenny and Kirklington Hall and Hipswell Lodge in Yorkshire. Buried ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION. |
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