The other six were Bellenden Hutcheson, Arthur George Knight, William Metcalf, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, Walter Leigh Rayfield and John Francis Young.

He attended the militia training and instructional courses in Levis and Toronto, and was promoted to Sergeant and musketry instructor in 1896.

In late 1896 he travelled to England to join the British Army was not selected for service and he returned home to Canada.

He led his battalion, under difficulties caused by heavy mist, to its final objective, nearly three miles, after severe fighting.

He then went out, under the most intense artillery and machine-gun fire and intercepted the tanks, giving them the necessary directions, pointing out where they were to make for, and thus paving the way for an infantry battalion to push forward.

Having reconnoitred the position he returned, reorganised his battalion, and, acting upon the knowledge personally gained; pushed them forward and arranged to protect his flanks.

He then went out under the most intense artillery and machine-gun fire, intercepted the Tanks, gave them the necessary directions, pointing out where they were to make for, and thus pave the way for a Canadian Infantry battalion to push forward.

During the Second World War, Peck commanded the Vancouver Island Division of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers.

He died 27 September 1956 of a heart attack and is buried at New Westminster Crematorium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

A plaque inside the House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario is dedicated to Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus Wesley Peck.