Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29371/supplements/11450. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. R.11941 Private George Peachment, 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. For most conspicuous bravery near Hulluch, France, on 25th September 1915. During very heavy fighting, when our front line was compelled to retire in order to reorganise, Private Peachment, seeing his Company Commander, Captain Dubs, lying wounded, crawled to assist him. The enemy's fire was intense, but though there was a shell hole quite close, in which a few men had taken cover, Private Peachment never thought of saving himself. He knelt in the open by his Officer and tried to help him, but while doing this he was first wounded by a bomb and a minute later mortally wounded by a rifle bullet. He was one of the youngest men in his battalion and gave this splendid example of courage and self-sacrifice.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29371/supplements/11450. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. R.11941 Private George Peachment, 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. For most conspicuous bravery near Hulluch, France, on 25th September 1915. During very heavy fighting, when our front line was compelled to retire in order to reorganise, Private Peachment, seeing his Company Commander, Captain Dubs, lying wounded, crawled to assist him. The enemy's fire was intense, but though there was a shell hole quite close, in which a few men had taken cover, Private Peachment never thought of saving himself. He knelt in the open by his Officer and tried to help him, but while doing this he was first wounded by a bomb and a minute later mortally wounded by a rifle bullet. He was one of the youngest men in his battalion and gave this splendid example of courage and self-sacrifice.