George George Bryan William Peck was born in Eton, June quarter 1913, to Bernhardt William Peck, a railway clerk and Elsie Catherine Elizabeth Peck, formerly an elementary school teacher in Reading. The family moved to Llangollen, where George spent his youth, and subsequently to Market Drayton, in Shropshire. In 1938, George married his childhood schoolmate Noreen Bessie Horspool in St Collen’s, Llangollen. He died in 1942 when his aircraft crashed and was commemorated on the Singapore Memorial.

The Singapore Memorial