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IWM has a collection of his photos
1894 May 9. Born Ormskirk. Lancs
1901 census at 19, Ruff Lane, Ormskirk
1911 census at 4 Albert Road Birkdale
1915 Nov 3 Commissioned 2nd Lt
1915 May 13. Landed in France
1915 Jun 8. Confirmed as 2nd Lt
1917 Jul 1. Promoted Lt
1919 Jun 13. R Lanc. R.—Lt. (actg. Capt.) B. Peers is placed on the h.p. list on account of ill-health caused by wounds.
1919 Jul 26. The undermentioned Lts., hp. list, retire on ret. pay on account of ill-health, caused by wounds. — (Actg. Capt.) B. Peers, and is granted the rank of Capt
1920 Jan 5. Dissolves estate agents business. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Arthur Frank Shearing and Basil Peers, carrying on business as Estate Agents, at East Grinstead, under the style or .irm of FRANK SHEARING AND PEERS, has been dissolved by mutual consent . ARTHUR FRANK SHEARING. BASIL PEERS, Capt.
1920 Dec 13.Joined ADRIC with service no 1237.Posted to E Coy
1921 Feb 22 Bankruptcy receiving order" Basil Peers (trading as Radcliffe Peers & Co.), lately trading at East Grinstead, Sussex, but recently living at 169 Ashley Gardens, London, and domiciled in England, estate agent."
1921 Jun 28. The IRA believe (from Collins Papers) that he murdered M Mulcooly after the Scamogue Ambush
1921 Aug 31. Struck off as a deserter
1925 Jun 7. Died Hampstead aged 32. According to his death certificate it was purpura haemorrhagica and cardiac failure. The purpure haemorrhagica was bleeding of the corpuscles under the skin - an inflammatory condition as a result of infections when he was hit in WW1 in the sciatic nerve on two occasions. His sister said he suddenly had a heart attack after being up all day and dropped dead the same evening.