Lieutenant Charles William Peck Memorial Window, 1920, All Saints Church, Jordanhill, Glasgow. Likeness of Peck as St. George
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3350 x 5034 px | 28.4 x 42.6 cm | 11.2 x 16.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
4 June 2011Location:
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, JORDANHILL, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOMMore information:
Charles William Peck from Glasgow enlisted in 1914 in the Sixth Royal Scots Fusiliers who were part of the Ninth Scottish Division, which in turn was part of the First Army (Kitcheners' First Army), British Expeditionary Force. He was raised to the rank of temporary Lietuenant. He died at the Battle of Loos, September 1915 which lasted for two weeks. 170, 000 British Soldiers fought in the battle, 16, 000 died. He was reported wounded but his body was never found. A memorial stained glass window was commissioned by the family and installed in 1920. The work was carried out by the firm of Thomas William Camm, The Studio, Smethwick, near Birmingham, executed by Florence, Robert and Walter Camm. It is rare that a memorial window shows the battle taking place. The lower windows show the actual battle, with the local land mark Tower Bridge depicted. Soldiers going over the top, barbed wire, machine gun, phosphorous gas balls exploding in the sky, soldiers being thrown through the air. This was the first battle in which the British Army used poisonous gas. An officer urges his men forward in the left lower panel. Peck's face is represented in the figure of St George in the left hand main panel, this again is rare. The right panel is St. Michael (likeness unknown). The photographs show the church, the windows' position in the church, the memorial panel with other who fell from the area in Scotland.