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A Rare Emotive Great War Family Collection of Medals to the Peachey Brothers of Newbury, BerkshireGreat War Group of Three to Private A. W. Peachey, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-15 Star (10526 Pte. A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.) British War and Victory Medals (15619 Pte A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.)Great War Casualty Group of Three to Private W. J. Peachey, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British War and Victory Medals (10526 Pte. W. J. Peachey. R. Berks. R.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Wilfred John Peachey) Lance Corporal Wilfred Peachey Fell on the 25th of September 1915, aged 29 years, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey, of Falkland Farm, Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he has no known grave, but is Remembered with Honour at the Loos Memorial, to the Missing (Dud Corner Cemetery) Panel 93 - 95,Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle.The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice.Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Gunner E. R. Peachey, 'B' Battery, 165th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British War and Victory Medals (901295 Gnr. E. R. Peachey. R. A.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Richard Peachey) Gunner Edward Peachey Fell on the 29th of October 1918, aged 29 years, less than a month before the end of hostilities, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey of Sydmonton, Newbury ; husband of Florence L. Peachey of 'Heatherlea', Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he is Remembered with Honour at the La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck G.R. V.25, FranceKreule Military Cemetery was opened in April 1918 by the 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations, which came back from Outtersteene ahead of the German advance, and the 17th, which arrived from Lijssenthoek. These three stations, known collectively as "Ana Jana Siding", were posted to the north of La Kreule, but in the middle of April they withdrew to Blendecques, near St. Omer, and the cemetery was then used by heavy artillery and fighting units. In October 1918, the 17th Casualty Clearing Station returned with the 8th and the 64th and the cemetery was closed at the end of the month. A Second World War Group of Three to R. Peachey, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal 1939-1945, in their inscribed card box of issue.