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PEACH, David
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 7308 |
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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 |
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.