Alfred Ernest Peacock (1908-1974) [4608720, Fusilier, 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers > later Sergeant, Pioneer Corps]

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• born 16 April 1908 at Dover
• son of Thomas William Peacock & Susannah Elizabeth (née ?)
• married Edith May Horn on 23 March 1940 at Shelley (Q1 1940 Huddersfield)

Records:

• 1911 Census (FindMyPast) – 1 Alexandra Cottages, Chapel Hill, Dover, Kent (father: general labourer)
• 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – Low Fold, Shelley
• Army service record (Ancestry)

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Huddersfield Examiner (01/Mar/1941):

SHELLEY HUSBAND WALKS IN

Thought to be Prisoner of War

Mrs. Peacock, of 6, Hill Top, Shelley, received a very welcome surprise when her husband, Fusilier Alfred Ernest Peacock, whom she imagined to be a prisoner-of-war in France, arrived at home.

Fusilier Peacock enlisted in 7th the Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1926. He spent six years in India, and went to France in April, 1940. He was badly scalded outside Verdun, and was in hospital when the French capitulated. He escaped, but in the weeks that followed was recaptured several times by the Germans and the French. In August, 1940, he met an American millionaire and his wife in Pau, who gave him food and clothing and made it possible for him to get in touch with his wife in England. In Marseilles last Christmas the American Consul provided him and his comrades with a Christmas dinner which Fusilier Peacock described as “wonderful.” He is delighted with his nine-week-old daughter, Yvonne, whom, of course, he had not seen before, and says that he intends to write about all his thrilling experiences after the war. He landed in England on February 15, but did not reach the North until last Thursday.

 

 

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