Francis Peitz

Lance Corporal Francis Joseph Peitz was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1886, in Islington, the son of baker Joseph and Frances Peitz (née Philpot), of Germany and Gibraltar, respectively. At the time of the 1911 Census, Peitz was working as an engineer's clerk while living with his family at 32 Northampton Street, Clerkenwell.
Peitz died on 12 March 1915, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, while serving on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Peitz, Francis Joseph, cwgc.org. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
Category:1886 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
Category:Lance Corporals