Brass memorial plaque at the west end on the north aisle to Brigadier General Malcolm Peake, and Lt. Colin Peake in St Mary's church, Burrough on the Hill. Both were killed in action in WWI.
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In Memory of
MALCOLM PEAKE
Brigadier General Royal Artillery
A Companion of St. Michael and St. George
And an Officer of the Legion of Honour
Born 27th March 1865 3rd son of Frederick
Peake of Burrough
Killed on active service in France 27th Augst 1917
Also of
COLIN PEAKE
Lieut. Leicestershire Yeomanry
Elder son of Ronald and Florence Peake and Grandson
of Frederick Peake Born 28th Sept 1889
Killed in Action in France 13th May 1915
"DEO DANTE DEDI""Malcolm Peake
27/03/1865 - 27/08/1917
Forename(s): Malcolm
Surname: Peake
Date of Birth: 27/03/1865
Nationality: British
Country of Death: France
Father: Frederick Peake
Mother: Charlotte Peake
Date of Marriage: --/--/1900
Spouse: Louisa Margaret A Peake nee Osborne
Date of Death: 27/08/1917
Age: 52
CWGC Age: 52
Service Type: Army
Regiment/Unit: Royal Artillery
Rank: Brigadier General
Service record or other biographical information: The son of Frederick and Charlotte Peake. In 1900 he married Louisa Peake nee Osborne of 11, Onslow Crescent, SW London. He attended Charterhouse between 1877 and 1882. In 1884 he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, he then pursued a military career in the Egyptian Army. In the Great War he served on the Staff with I Corps, he was twice mentioned in despatches, and appointed C.M.G. He was killed in action on 27th August 1917. A report of his memorial service in The Times of 29th September 1917 states that he and his staff officer Major Derrick le Poer Trench were killed by the same shell.
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Related Memorials/Cemetery:
Godalming, Charterhouse School - Chapel WW1 and WW2
Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France
Other Sources: Contributed by Charterhouse School and Archive, www.ancestry.co.uk
Other Information: Spouses name from LIVES and details of marriage confirmed on www.ancestry.co.uk. Lives of the First World War has a second record for Brigadier General Malcolm Peake , see: (
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"Colin Peake was a grandson of Frederick Peake of Parsons Mead, Ashtead, (who was also a partner in Messrs Bird Peake & Collins, 6 Bedford Row, London, Solicitors). His father, Ronald*, born 11 June 1861, lived in 1881 at Burrow Village, Burrough, Leicestershire, but his marriage, to Florence Rebecca Adams, was registered at Epsom in the Autumn of 1886 and by 1897 he had had acquired a lease of Howard House, Ashtead.
Colin’s birth was registered at the end of 1889 and he went to Fonthill School before going on to Charterhouse.
Ashtead Parish Magazine reports the award of the bronze medal and life-saving certificate to Frederick Hampton - in relation to a pond in Sedgewick's disused brick-field. The presentation was made in the presence of Hampton's Scout Troop - the Scoutmaster in December 1911 was Colin Peake
Having completed articles to train as a Solicitor, Colin was admitted to the family firm, 1913, joining his father in business.
A local connection would explain his enlistment with Prince Albert’s Own Leicestershire Yeomanry in which he was commissioned on 23 April 1909. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1911, he went to France in 1914 when his unit was ordered abroad to take part in the First Battle of Ypres.
On the 12th May 1915 the Leicestershire Yeomanry comprising 281 all ranks moved into the line East of Ypres. [Near Hooge] At about 3.30am on the 13th the Germans began a heavy bombardment of the line. Just after 6am the first German attack was quickly checked and the Germans restarted their bombardment till just after 7.30am when they once again attacked. The fighting continued all day. The line to the left of the Leicesters gave and they were at one time surrounded, having to make a fighting withdrawal. Heavy fighting continued throughout the day and when the Leicesters were pulled out of the line they had suffered over 180 casualties, including their Colonel.
A memorial service took place, 28 May 1915, in St Martin’s Church, Leicester [Leicester Cathedral], to mark the grievously heavy loss of Officers, NCOs and men from Leicestershire Yeomanry on the 13th in defence of the line at Ypres.
He is named on the Charterhouse School Roll of Honour.
* Ronald Peake of Howard House was appointed Chairman of Local Emergency Committee for Ashtead under the WW1 Defence of the Realm Act. It appears that there are papers at Surrey History Centre under 7543/2/1 which include a list of names relating to the registration of adult males in 1916. That should help to establish which of the Ashtead casualties had been conscripted."
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