Infantrymen of The North Nova Scotia Highlanders aboard LCI(L) 135 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla during Exercise FABIUS III, Southampton, England, ca. 1 May 1944.
1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Peck was awarded the Victoria Cross for his courageous leadership during the fighting for the Drocourt-Quéant Line, near Cagnicourt in France.