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Private Brian Terrence Peck

14792098 8th Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

Son of Mr George Cecil & Mrs Edna Beryl Peck, of Great Yarmouth NFK

Aged 18 years

Died 24th March 1945

Commemorated at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Grave 44. C.12.
Evening Telegraph, Friday, 6th April 1945, transcribed by John Collins.

Killed in Action

Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Peck, of 158, Washbrook-road Rushden, received news on Thursday that their eldest son, Pte. Brian Terrence Peck, The Royal Scots Regiment, was killed in action in Western Europe in March.

Eighteen years of age, Pte. Peck was called up in June last years and was transferred from the Northamptonshire Regiment before going overseas in January. He was previously employed by P.X. Ltd., of which firm his father is a director. He was on an old boy of Wellingborough Grammar School, and at one time belonged to Rushden A.T.C.

Extract from the Roll of Honour in "Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School" by D & G Tall
Brian Peck (W'boro Grammar Sschool 1939-42) joined the Northamptonshire Regiment in June 1944 and transferred to the Royal Scots in 1945. He was killed, aged 18, during the crossing of the Rhine into Germany on 24th March 1945 and buried in the Reichswald Forest British Military Cemetery.

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