David PEACH

PEACH, David

Service Number: 7308
Enlisted: 22 October 1916
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 9th Infantry Battalion
Born: Gatton, Queensland, Australia, 10 May 1891
Home Town: Gatton, Lockyer Valley, Queensland
Schooling: Upper Tent Hill State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Killed in action, France, 26 April 1918, aged 26 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gatton Weeping Mother Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

David Peach was the son of James and Christina Peach of Upper Tent Hill, Gatton, Queensland. His younger adopted brother, with whom he had been raised, 4554 Lance Corporal Percy Peach, 47th Battalion had been killed in action at Dernancourt on 3 April 1918, only three weeks before David died. Neither has a known grave.