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Raymond Peach
Raymond Harry Peach
Corporal
F/39680
West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.
May 11, 1914
Liverpool, NS
September 20 1939
Bridgewater, NS
25
5 feet, 8 inches
medium
grey-green
auburn
Harry MacLeod (Step-father) Liverpool, NS
Single
Stevedore
March 17, 1944
29
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery
VI. E. 14
Commemorated on page 413 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on September 3
Corporal Peach was the son of Robie Peach, step-son of Harry MacLeod and Myrtle Bell [Whynot]
Peach-MacLeod of Liverpool, Queens Co., NS. His mother died on March 18, 1944.
Prior to his enlistment he was employed for eight years as a Stevedore with Mersey Paper Co. in
Liverpool.
Corporal Peach served in Canada between September 20, 1939 and December 21, 1939; in the
United Kingdom between December 22, 1939 and June 15, 1943; and in Italy from June 16, 1943 until
his death on March 17, 1944.
Corporal Peach died of machine gun wounds received in action against the enemy on March 16,
1944. Initial burial was in the San Vito Cemetery on March 18, 1944 with reburial in the Moro River
Canadian War Cemetery on August 8, 1944.