Peart, SB
(1891 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
10th August 1891
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1906 - 1907
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
15 Camden Street, Peckham
REGIMENT
21st (1st Surrey Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment
FINAL RANK:
Rifleman
DATE OF DEATH:
25th May 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
23
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Givenchy
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Le Touret Memorial. Panel 45
Rifleman Stanley Brace Peart
Born August 10th 1891 in Adelaide, Australia, Stanley was the fourth, and youngest, child of London-born grocer George Peart and his Australian wife, Marie. By the time he was ten the family had moved to England and were living in Camberwell. He was for a time educated at Bellenden Road Higher Grade School in Peckham and during this period was a particularly prominent and versatile sportsman, captaining his school at football, cricket and swimming; on a wider scale he also played twice in the East v West cricket match, and was the juvenile breaststroke champion of South London. He came to Dulwich in the summer of 1906 on a London County Council scholarship, and during his year as a pupil was a member of the cricket 3rd XI as well as winning the College Breaststroke title. After leaving in July 1907 he took up a position working in the London offices of Kamfersdam Mines Ltd., but also remained a keen sportsman, playing regularly for both Honor Oak Cricket Club and Dulwich Hamlet F.C.
In August 1914, upon the beginning of the conflict, Stanley signed up as a member of the 1st Surrey Rifles, with whom he later went to France for the first time in March 1915. After barely two months at the front he was killed at Givenchy on May 25th, the final day of the Battle of Festubert.
