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VC657   George Stanley Peachment

BORN   5 May 1897

DIED   25 September 1915   AGE   18

VC Won   25 September 1915   AGE   18

Place VC Won   Puits 14, Loos, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   George Stanley Peachment   No.   11941   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   657   Awards   VC   

Regiment   King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Battalion, A Company

Later   Royal Green Jackets

Now   2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Parkhills, Fishpool, Bury, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   Puits (Pithead) 14, nr Hulloch, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Named on Loos Memorial to the Missing, Dud Corner Cemetery, Le Routoire, 2 miles north-west of Lens, Pas de Calais, France (location unknown)

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone      Plot/Grave no.   Panel 101

Gazetted   18 November 1915

VC Presented   29 November 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Named on Loos Memorial to the Missing (Pane 101), Dud Corner Cemetery, Le Routoire, 2 miles north-west of Lens, Pas de Calais, France

Memorial, St Annes Church, Chapel Street, Tottington, Greater Manchester

Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Cenotaph, Tottington, Lancashire

By The Way…

He gave a false date of birth when joining up by adding three years to his age

VC Held By

Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M.

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