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VC894   Walter Peeler   

Name   Walter Peeler  No.   114   

VC Issue No.   894   Awards   VC   BEM

Regiment    3rd Australian Pioneer Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Barker's Creek, near Castlemaine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Place Of Death   At his home, Moore Street, South Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

Buried/Location Ashes   Brighton Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Lawn Section, Grave 36, Compartment H

Gazetted   26 November 1917

VC Presented   9 January 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Brighton Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Memorial Plaque, Victoria Garden of Remembrance, Springvale, Victoria, Australia

Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Peeler Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Peeler Soldiers Club, Casula, NSW, Australia

Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

By The Way…

During the Second World War, he rejoined the Army, he lied about his age, he was 52. He was captured by the Japanese in Java

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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BORN   9 August 1887

DIED   23 May 1968  AGE   80

VC Won   20 September 1917   AGE   30

Place VC Won   Levi Cottages, Ypres, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

Thank you to Anthony Staunton