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- Written by: Edward Peck
Edwin Robert Richmond Peck joined his battalion in France on 20th July 1916. Born on Boxing Day in 1892, educated at the local grammar school in Ipswich, he became a clerk at a brewery on the banks of the river Orwell before signing up for the Suffolk Regiment in 1915. Between 1915 he remains in England, becoming a temporary 2nd Lieutenant (a wartime rank) in January 1915.
During his period in France he wrote letters home to his mother. They provide a window on his experiences, albeit one that is written for his mother to read.