Lindsay Adams PEAKE
Year of Birth: 1913
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of Enlistment: 6 January 1942, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Australian Defence Force: Australian Imperial Force
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit(s): 2/109 General Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps
Service Number: VX71013
Died: 27 April 1944
Age: 31 years
Buried: Cairns War Cemetery – Plot A – Row C – Grave 19
Lindsay was born 8 January 1913 in Elsternwick, Victoria, to George and Emily Lily (Adams) Peake and he had a brother and sister. He married Cybyle Amy Thurlow in 1934 and had one son.
In the 1937 Electoral Roll for Mildura his occupation was a departmental manager. The year he joined the armed forces, his father died in the November.
The records have his cause of death as illness.
Lindsay Adams Peake’s name is on Elsternwick Roll of Honour board and also located at panel 83 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Online Resources
NAA: B883, (PEAKE Lindsay Adams) National Archives of Australia
Department Veterans’ Affairs Nominal Rolls
National Library of Australia: Trove Digitised Newspapers
Queensland Registrar of Births Deaths & Marriages
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