Harry PEEL

Main CPGW Record

Surname: PEEL

Forename(s): Harry

Place of Birth: Dalehead (Slaidburn), Yorkshire

Service No: L/1784

Rank: Gunner

Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery

Battalion / Unit: Y38th Trench Mortar Battery

Division: 38th (Welsh) Division

Age: 30

Date of Death: 1918-04-01

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. P. 84.

CWGC Cemetery: LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: DALEHEAD, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Harry Peel was the son of John and Ellen Peel, née Waddington. John was born at Dalehead and Ellen at Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire.

1891 Dalehead, Yorkshire Census: Brook House Green - Harry Peel, aged 2 years, born Dalehead, son of John and Ellen Peel.

1901 Dalehead, Yorkshire Census: Brookhouse Green - Harry Peel, aged 12 years, born Dalehead, son of John and Ellen Peel.

1911 Dalehead, Yorkshire Census: Brookhouse Green - Harry Peel, aged 22 years, born Dalehead, son of John and Ellen Peel.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Gnr H. Peel, W/1784, Royal Field Artillery. Theatre of War: (1) France. Qualifying date [for 1914-15 Star]: 23 February 1915.

A short biography of Harry is included in: ‘In Love, In Gratitude, In Remembrance – Remembering the Men & Women of Slaidburn, Newton in Bowland, Dunsop Bridge, Dale Head & Tosside’ by Margaret Brenchley (2018).

Photograph: ‘Clitheroe Advertiser’ (19 April 1918).

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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