Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\nName:\u00a0<\/strong>Henry A Mason Peile<\/p>\nDoB:<\/strong>\u00a0January 7 1896.<\/p>\nRegt:\u00a0<\/strong>Rifleman\u00a0<\/strong>301359 London Rifle Brigade.<\/p>\nDoD:\u00a0<\/strong>Date of Death: Reported wounded and missing; officially reported killed in action, July 1, 1916.<\/p>\nAcademic Career<\/strong>: CGS\u00a0Sept 1906 \u2013 July, 1907.<\/p>\nBiographical Information:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n \n ![\"peile\"](\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/peile.jpg\" "\\"peile\\"")
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Henry was the son of Walker Peile and Gertrude nee Simpson, of 7, St. James\u2019 Road. His father was recorded as a grocer\u2019s assistant in 1891 and a commission agent in 1901.He died in 1909. His wife, who was six years older and originated from Melksham Wiltshire was recorded visiting her sister in Birmingham in 1911 where she was a companion to an elderly lady. She died at Taunton in 1941 aged 77. Henry\u2019s older sister Alice Muriel was living at Station Hill Wigton in 1911, training to be a teacher. She got a BA Hons in geography from LSE and registered with the Teachers\u2019 Registration Council in 1921. She taught in Cheshire, Chiswick and Guildford before becoming \u00a0headmistress of Bishop Fox\u2019s Girls School Taunton. An Alice Peile died in 1965 in Bristol aged 72.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Academic Record: <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
In the 1911 Census Henry is recorded as being a boarder at the Friends School, Wigton.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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Henry enlisted into the 3rd Battalion London Rifle Brigade in early 1915 and went to France in a draft to the 1st Battalion on October 15 of that year. Henry was part of the 56th<\/sup>Division which formed in February 1916. The London Rifle Brigade was quite exclusive \u2013 demanding an entry fee \u2013 and so attracted the more privileged classes. In May and June they were training behind the lines at Arras. The 56th<\/sup>\u00a0Division was ordered to attack at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. The width of No-Man\u2019s Land was perhaps 800 yards in May \u2013 too far for the troops to cross \u2013 and time was spent extending the trenches although bad weather in June hampered progress. The distance on July 1 was still between 250 and 400 yards however. The riflemen crossed No-Man\u2019s Land at a walk as ordered but were cut down by machine gun fire. By 8.30pm the surviving men of the Division were given the order \u201cevery man for himself<\/em>\u201d and they tried to get back to the British lines. The two divisions at Gommecourt suffered 6,769 casualties, of whom 2,206 men were killed. Gommecourt was not taken. \u00a0More than \u00a0300 London Rifle Brigade men were killed on that day, or died from wounds later. Henry was reported wounded and missing; and officially reported killed in action.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n
DoB:<\/strong>\u00a0January 7 1896.<\/p>\n Regt:\u00a0<\/strong>Rifleman\u00a0<\/strong>301359 London Rifle Brigade.<\/p>\n DoD:\u00a0<\/strong>Date of Death: Reported wounded and missing; officially reported killed in action, July 1, 1916.<\/p>\n Academic Career<\/strong>: CGS\u00a0Sept 1906 \u2013 July, 1907.<\/p>\n Biographical Information:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n Henry was the son of Walker Peile and Gertrude nee Simpson, of 7, St. James\u2019 Road. His father was recorded as a grocer\u2019s assistant in 1891 and a commission agent in 1901.He died in 1909. His wife, who was six years older and originated from Melksham Wiltshire was recorded visiting her sister in Birmingham in 1911 where she was a companion to an elderly lady. She died at Taunton in 1941 aged 77. Henry\u2019s older sister Alice Muriel was living at Station Hill Wigton in 1911, training to be a teacher. She got a BA Hons in geography from LSE and registered with the Teachers\u2019 Registration Council in 1921. She taught in Cheshire, Chiswick and Guildford before becoming \u00a0headmistress of Bishop Fox\u2019s Girls School Taunton. An Alice Peile died in 1965 in Bristol aged 72.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n In the 1911 Census Henry is recorded as being a boarder at the Friends School, Wigton.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n Henry enlisted into the 3rd Battalion London Rifle Brigade in early 1915 and went to France in a draft to the 1st Battalion on October 15 of that year. Henry was part of the 56th<\/sup>Division which formed in February 1916. The London Rifle Brigade was quite exclusive \u2013 demanding an entry fee \u2013 and so attracted the more privileged classes. In May and June they were training behind the lines at Arras. The 56th<\/sup>\u00a0Division was ordered to attack at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. The width of No-Man\u2019s Land was perhaps 800 yards in May \u2013 too far for the troops to cross \u2013 and time was spent extending the trenches although bad weather in June hampered progress. The distance on July 1 was still between 250 and 400 yards however. The riflemen crossed No-Man\u2019s Land at a walk as ordered but were cut down by machine gun fire. By 8.30pm the surviving men of the Division were given the order \u201cevery man for himself<\/em>\u201d and they tried to get back to the British lines. The two divisions at Gommecourt suffered 6,769 casualties, of whom 2,206 men were killed. Gommecourt was not taken. \u00a0More than \u00a0300 London Rifle Brigade men were killed on that day, or died from wounds later. Henry was reported wounded and missing; and officially reported killed in action.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n \n <\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n