Profile: Ralph Peart

Private Ralph Peart (No: 99063)


Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:

Hamlet: High Grain

Village: Cowshill

Parish: Heatherycleugh

Enlisted: , Sunderland (aged )

Regiment: Machine Gun Corp

Battalion: 246th Company

Conflict: First World War

War Record: Yes

Discharge Status:

Next of Kin: Son of William Peart of High Grain, Cowshill


Notes

Occupation on enlistment - Sheet metel Turner - Enlisted - 13th April 1916 - Discharged 1/8/1917. - Disability Hysteria ( He had been admitted 6 times to hospital since enlisting being subject to "Fits"during infance. Being described as being "Congenial", the war having no part in thes occuring. - He was awarded £30 gratuity under Royal Warent (1917)