Source: British Home Children Who Died in the First World War and during COD register research for Whitney Glen Robertson. British Home Child.
Family Search: Private Horace Pegg was born on 4 March 1896, in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom as the son of Pegg and Mother. He immigrated to Canada in 1907. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as farm labourer in Hagersville, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. He died on 27 August 1918, in Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Brother to Private Albert Pegg, reg. no. 880507 and Private Charles Amos Pegg, reg. no. 32049, who both survived the war.
British Home Child
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 