Photo: Dorothy Hall
a dearly loved son -
and brother
Gavin Peacock
accidentally killed in
Gibraltar 19th February 1985
aged 19 years
Gavin Peacock, born 30th April 1965, was the son of Geoffrey and Josephine S., nee Jones. He had one brother, Gary, born in 1963.
Private Gavin Peacock was a soldier, in what was then called the Royal Pioneer Corps. They were tasked with dismantling Nissen huts, left over from the Second World War, when one of the external walls collapsed and crushed him.
Gavin Peacock is remembered at Lanchester on L62.01
Private Peacock is also remembered in the National Arboretum on the Armed Services Memorial.
