Commonwealth Graves Commission would like to contact relatives of Lieutenant Cruger Stanley Peach - born in London 14/7/1896 - son of Charles Stanley Peach and Charlotte Justine Newton.
Lt Cruger Stanley Peach is buried at Brookwood cemetery - grave M179176 - regiment Royal Flying Corp. 1 st West Yorks Regiment.
If ypou are a relative and can help CWGC, please contact -
https://www.cwgc.org/The private memorial marking the grave of Lt Peach no longer provides adequate commemoration. The commission is in the process of producing a head stone to mark his grave.
The Parents Charles and Charlotte were married Wandsworth - registered March 1889
Charles Stanley Peach - Wandsworth - 1d 686
Charlotte Justine Newton - Wandsworth - 1d 686
Probate for Lt Cruger Stanley Peach of Queensmead Farnborough - 24 April 1917 Houndslow Middlesex - Captain H M Army. Registry London 4 August 1917 to his father Stanley Charles Peach.
Sad reading..............
Cruger Stanley Peach, a Lieutenant in the 15th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, was killed in a
flying accident on Clapham Common. Born in Putney, his father was an architect who in fact
designed Centre Court at Wimbledon. The family moved to Queensmead, a large house
later demolished when the Farnborough shopping centre was developed. Having seen active
service, Cruger returned to the UK to train as a pilot and was killed when his two-seater
biplane, of a type disliked by pilots, crashed. According to a report by the Metropolitan
Police, a resident was digging on his allotment when a boy brought him the remains of
human feet. It was found that they belonged to the pilot whose body had been removed
from the site of the crash, apparently without anyone noting that the feet were missing, a
fact subsequently established at an inquest. The foot remains had by then been buried by
the resident in his allotment and he was unable to find them, so they were never reunited
with Cruger’s body, which lies in Brookwood Cemetery.
https://thefarnboroughsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-WWI-Memorial-in-St-Peter%E2%80%99s-Church.pdf Sandra
