Lewis Willard Peat

Lewis was a Private in the 1st Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbys) Regiment. He was born in Dore in 1892 to Joseph Dickinson Peat, a gardener, and Harriet Peat, the fourth of six children. At the time of the 1911 Census his parents were living at Greenwood Mount in the village and Lewis was a groom at Banner Cross Hall.

Lewis enlisted in Dronfield and was killed in action in Flanders on 30th January 1916. He is commemorated on the memorial in Loos Military Cemetery. He was awarded to Victory and British Medals, but not the 1914/15 Star so Lewis can only have been on the Western Front after 1st January 1916.

The Peat family were well known in the Dore area as makers of besom brooms from their cottage at Stoney Ridge, on Hathersage Road. Lewis, we believe was related to George Peat, the besom maker. In the 1911 Census there was a William Peat recorded as a broom maker of Stoney Ridge.

Related Topics: Dore in the First World War | Dore's War Memorial | Lych Gate War Memorial | Roll Call of War Dead 1914-1919