Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Percy Walter Peach) good very fine £80-£100

Percy Walter Peach was born in Sutton, Cambridgeshire in November 1885. He was employed as an Accountant prior to the war, and resided at 459 Cumberland Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Peach served with the Legion of Frontiersman and with 106th Regiment, Winnipeg Light Infantry. He re-enlisted and was commissioned in the 45th Battalion (Manitoba), Canadian Infantry at Winnipeg, 10 February 1916.

Lieutenant Peach served with the Battalion on the Western Front, and was attached to the 52nd Battalion (New Ontario) when he received a gun shot wound to his abdomen on the Somme, 16 September, 1916. He was wounded while the Battalion was moving over open ground to their position by the Sunken Road. Lieutenant Peach died of his wounds 13 October 1916, and is buried St. Leonard’s Churchyard, Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England.

Sold with copied service papers.