PECK, William George

Ramleh War Cemetery, IsraelCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd/19th Battalion
London Regiment

William was born 1896 in Newport to Alfred & Sarah Fanny (nee HARDING) PECK. In 1901 & 1911 William was recorded as living at The Britannia Inn, 36 Hunnyhill in Newport, his father Alfred being the Publican. His mother Sarah died in 1909.

William, a clerk before the War, was Killed in Action, aged 22, on the 24th of September 1918, & buried in the Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel beneath a Commission Headstone, together 3,300 of his First World War comrades, with 964 of these remaining unidentified.

William is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.