Private Harold Peachey

In Memory of

Private HARRY PEACHEY

2851, 1st Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers

who died age 26
on 1st July 1916

Son of Frederick and Annie Peachey, of 18, Moss Colliery Rd., Clifton, Manchester.


Remembered with honour
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Harold or Harry Peachy was born in Bristol and enlisted in Bury. He joined the Lancashire Fusiliers as a regular soldier and fought with the 1st Battalion at Gallipoli in 1915. He was killed in the attack from the Sunken Lane at Beaumont Hamel on 1st July 1916 when the battalion came under heavy machine gun fire.