PEAKE, Leo Joseph
| Service Number: | 2233 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 December 1915, Casula, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Narromine, New South Wales, Australia, 6 November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Dubbo, Dubbo Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia, 7 March 1951, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lake Cargelligo Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2233, Casula, New South Wales | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 3 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Anzac Provost Corps | |
| 10 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 7th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 27 Nov 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Kantara for Dardanelles on board HT Huncastle | |
| 27 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Chanak for Alexandria on board HT Huncastle | |
| 5 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Kantara RTA on board HT Port Sydney – hospitalised at sea with Measles | |
| 22 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2233, 7th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver Leo Joseph Peake (Service No:2233) enlisted in the AIF on 16 December 1915 as a Private with 7th Light Horse Regiment - he had previously served with 9th Light Horse Narromine. On 11 March 1916 Private Peake embarked from Sydney for Egypt on board HMAT A67 Orsova. He served as a Trooper and Driver in Egypt with 7th Light Horse Regiment and Anzac Provost Police Corps - and was hospitalised on several occasions with Gastric Ulcers, Bronchitis and Influenza. Having served in the Dardanelles in 1918/1919, Driver Peake embarked from Kantara for the RTA on 5 March 1919 - hospitalised at sea with measles - and was attached to 7th Light Horse Regiment at Discharge on 22 June 1919.
Youngest of six children, Leo was born in Narromine, NSW in 1895 to William Edward Peake (b1846 in Nottinghamshire, England) and Frances (Fanny) Gawler (nee Reilly; b1847 in Bathurst, NSW). William (a Labourer) and Fanny (a Widow) married in 1877 in Orange, NSW and settled in Narromine where William was a Labourer and Fettler.
Leo was a Labourer in Narromine when he enlisted in the AIF, and following his Discharge, in 1920 in Narromine married Maude Blanche Kennedy (b1903 in Narromine, NSW). Leo and Maude lived in Forbes, Condobolin, Euabalong, Werriwa, Carrama and Lake Cargelligo where Leo was a Labourer. Leo died in 1951 and Maude in 1960.