The Reverend Leslie Vernon Peacock was originally commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the 6th Cyclist Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment in November 1914, direct from the Cambridge University O.T.C. Advanced to Lieutenant in June 1916, he was attached to the Machine Gun Corps until transferring to the Indian Army in August 1917. Further promoted to Captain in August 1919, he served in the 2-9 Jats in the Waziristan operations prior to relinquishing his Commission in 1923. Peacock attended Sarum Theological College in 1938 and took Holy Orders at Chichester in the following year, his new found vocation resulting in his appointment as Chaplain to the R.A.F.V.R. in March 1941, which position he occupied until the end of hostilities with the equivalent rank of Squadron Leader. He was latterly Perpetual Curate of Chideock in Dorset.