Peet, FW
(1894 - 1916)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
17th April 1894
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1907 - 1912
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Haslemere, Perry Vale, Forest Hill
REGIMENT
Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry)
FINAL RANK:
Lance Sergeant
DATE OF DEATH:
1st December 1916
AGE AT DEATH:
22
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Beaumont Hamel, Somme
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel. VIII E 9
Lance Sergeant Frederick William Peet
Fred was born on April 17th 1894, the younger of two children, and only son, born to a cork merchant, also named Frederick Peet, and his wife, Alice. He joined the College in the spring of 1907 and during his time at Dulwich was a boarder in The Orchard. After five years as a pupil he left in the spring of 1912, and went on to study for the bar, intending to qualify as a lawyer; he was also an active member of the OAs at this time.
In September 1915 Fred abandoned his studies in order to volunteer for military service, joining up with the Honourable Artillery Company, shortly afterwards he was promoted to Corporal and later Lance-Sergeant, the rank he held when he went to the front for the first time in October 1916. Not long afterwards, on the night of December 1st, he was shot through the heart by a German machine gunner whilst in the process of relieving an advance post near Beaumont-Hamel, dying instantly. His sister, Dorothy, would later go on to marry a fellow OA, Santiago Gispert.
