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Rank Private
Service # 189868
Unit # 91st battalion
Resident Blenheim
Books Of Rememberance Page Available

Private Pegg trained with the 186th battalion in Canada until Mar. 22, 1917, when he left Chatham for overseas, embarking on the Lapland.

After training at Bramshott, he proceeded to France in Aug. 1917, attached to the 18th battalion.

He was reported Missing after the Battle of Passchendaele Nov 12, 1917, and later reported died in a German Prison Camp on Nov. 19, 1917.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources Blenheim News Tribune (08-03-1916), Blenheim News Tribune (12-04-1916), Blenheim News Tribune (26-04-1916), Blenheim News Tribune (28-06-1916), Chatham Daily Planet (10-12-1917), Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919), Blenheim Freedom Library, In Khaki - Blenheim Enlistment Book, Royal Canadian Legion Br. 185 60th Anniversary Book 1930-1990, Evergreen Cemetery - Blenheim
Supplemental Information Father: Peter Pegg, Blenheim Mother: Mrs. Peter Pegg
Height 5'6"
Eye Colour gray
Age 18
Complexion dark
Hair dark brown
Race white
Birthplace Harwich Township
Religion Methodist
Marital Status single
When Enlisted Jan. 1, 1916
Where Enlisted St. Thomas, ON

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