Background
Nickname "Snow" or "Snowy", for his very fair hair, Peters was born in Street Arnaud, Victoria.
Nickname "Snow" or "Snowy", for his very fair hair, Peters was born in Street Arnaud, Victoria.
In 1918 parents Carl Erich Theodore Otto Peters (1872-1950) and Harriet Cordelia Bond (1874-1970) left Street Arnaud, where Eric drove engines at the local Burkes Flat gold mine, with their 8 surviving children, for the Wonthaggi coal mines. Fred coached Sorrento Football Club (1936) and probably persuaded Bert to apply for the same position in 1937. Tooradin"s Anglican Christ Church has a separate plaque for them in their memorial garden.
To celebrate his wedding Peters bought a brand new Ford 10 sedan.
In Wonthaggi"s War Memorial gardens stands a flowering gum tree in Peters honour with a white cross underneath. Others are located at Runnymeade United Kingdom and the Australian War Memorial Canberra.
Around 2000 former Red Hill South student and later Shire of Flinders president Keith Holmes dedicated a plaque to Peters in the Red Hill Consolidate school"s Peace Garden. A photo of Peters hangs in the school foyer.
Peters, a violinist and saxophonist performed with a group of musicians in Wonthaggi.
He was one of seven North Melbourne players to make their league debut in the opening round of the 1930 VFL season. By the end of the year he had played 12 games and he added another five in the 1931 season, which would be his last. In each of his 17 appearances for North Melbourne, Peters finished on the losing team
This included a 168-point loss to Richmond at Punt Road Oval.
The 199 points conceded by North Melbourne in that game remained a league record until 1969. Peters spent the rest of his football career in the Mornington Peninsula.
He captain-coached Mornington Peninsula Football League club Sorrento from 1938 to 1940 and led them to the finals in each of those years, including the 1940 grand final against victors Somerville-Baxter, contrary to folklore. Before coming to Sorrento, Peters played for Dromana District in 1937.
Prior clubs were Tooradin and Wonthaggi.
He came to England in June 1943 for operational training. His first posting was to the Number. 455 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force and then the Number.
53 Squadron Royal Air Force, which were based in Cornwall.
On 13 June 1944, Peters was a navigator on board the Number. 53 Squadron"s B-24 Liberator BZ818/C which had been sent to the Bay of Biscay to perform an anti-submarine patrol.
The plane was shot down by German submarine U-270, with all crew members killed.