Friday, 15 October 2010

1439 Pte James Peden, 1st Bn, Northumberland Fusiliers

1439 Private James Peden of the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action on the 15th October 1914. He was 34 years old, the son of Richard and Mary Peden of Milford, Derbyshire and he had enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers in July 1905. He had arrived overseas on the 13th August 1914.

James is buried in the Vieille-Chapelle Military Cemetery in Lacouture, France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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