Cyril Sydney PECK

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PECK, Cyril Sydney

Service Number:	476
Enlisted:	6 April 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	St Leonards, Tasmania, Australia, 5 December 1898
Home Town:	St Leonards, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Dairy Farmer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 28 October 1918, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block S, Plot III, Row E, Grave No. 22. HIS SUN WENT DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Launceston Cenotaph

World War 1 Service

6 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 476, 40th Infantry Battalion
1 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 476, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
1 Jul 1916:	Embarked Private, 476, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Hobart

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Cyril Sydney Peck was one of the three sons of Sydney Archibald and Eliza Peck of St Leonards, Tasmania who served overseas in the AIF. His brother, 4859 Pte. Norman John Peck 12th Battalion was killed in action near Lagnicourt on 6 April 1917, aged 21. Another brother 2275 Pte. Gladstone Archibald Peck 7th Machine Gun Company, returned to Australia during 1919.

Cyril was very badly wounded on 29 September 1918, a shrapnel wound to the shoulder, and despite being treated in a General Hospital in Rouen, France, for almost a month, he died of his wounds.

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