Edward Peacock

I had a lot of luck in this search; more of that later.

The medal, along with two other WWI medals awarded to British soldiers, came from Jenni who found them amongst her father's possessions. My friend Sandra was the intermediary who posted the medals. Jenni and Sandra live in WA. 

British soldiers who served in WWI are sometimes difficult to positively identify especially when they don't have a middle name. Often there are no records which provide date of birth or parents details. Every so often a service or pension record, which wasn't destroyed during WWII is available on Ancestry. And that is the case with 1070 GNR Edward Peacock. 

Within 10 minutes of starting this search I found Edward's pension records which showed he enlisted on 11 February 1914 aged 17 years, 10 months, which was pre WWI. He served in various artillery regiments then in August 1918 he received a gun shot wound. The pension record provided his residential address. From there it was pretty easy to narrow down Edward's family. He is included on several Ancestry family trees and it is clear he never married. Descendants of his sister's family moved to Australia and settled in WA which explains why the medal was in WA.

One of the Ancestry trees belongs to Edwards great great niece who lives in WA so the medal is going back to where is was posted to me from. 

The returned medal tally is now 2810.