Notes
The Roll lists his address as Broadway.
(CWGC records that Private J E Peach, regimental number 241240, died on 2/11/1917 serving in 1st/5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, and is buried in grave VIII.F.15 at Gaza War Cemetery in Israel and Palestine. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that John was a native of Manchester who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his brother Alexander was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that John's former regimental number in the Suffolk Regiment had been 3772. John's birth had been registered in Manchester in 1896. When he had been baptised as the son of Margaret and Alexander Peach on 26/7/1896 at Manchester St Paul's Church the register was noted that he was born on 12/7/1896. Following his mother's death in 1898, John and his brother Alexander were raised by their grandmother in Thorney. On the 1911 census John Edward Peach had been aged 14; he and his brother Alexander were living with their grandmother Mary Ann Peach at 14 Wisbech Road South, Thorney. John is commemorated on Deacon's School War Memorial, of which the Thomas Deacon Academy in Peterborough is now the custodian).