PEACHEY, Edward Charles Collier
| Service Numbers: | 2958, 2958A |
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| Enlisted: | 2 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, 13 September 1886 |
| Home Town: | Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Aberdeen Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 27 The Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2958, 46th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2958, 46th Infantry Battalion | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2958, 46th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Napier embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2958, 46th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Napier, Sydney | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 2958A, 46th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2958A awm_unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Russell Blanch
From Col with Love....A Soldiers postcard.
Private Col Peachey, never returned from France, killed in action in 1917. This postcard, was the last letter to his father, sent before he embarked.
Addressed only to his father, because his mother, had died a decade before,( leaving his father to fulfill the paternal role, for both Col and his sister, Ivy.)
My wife had never met Uncle Col because he died decades before she was born, but his memory stayed with the Peachey family, and the postcard was handed on.
Col's father, Charlie Peachey (former Colour Sergeant with the NSW Corp), did not outlive his son by more than a couple of years, for he contracted the deadly Spanish Flu and passed away in 1919. At the time of his death, Charlie was the Mayor of Aberdeen, and the whole town went into mourning, wearing black.
His family staggered from one tragedy to another, a cycle of endless grieving, but nothing was worse, than his death bed scene' when the unmistakable sound of another epidemic funeral procession passed by his window.
When Charlie asked , who the victim might be , no one could answer. Not a soul in that room had the heart or the courage, to tell the Mayor, that hearse was carrying, none other, than his daughter, Ivy..
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