BORN OWSTON FERRY, LINCOLN 1878. SON OF SAMUEL PEARSON (1841-1906) & CHARLOTTE PEARSON (1846-1920). ONE OF THREE SONS KILLED IN THE WAR. CHARLES MARRIED ALICE A COULLING, AT ST ANDREWS CHURCH, HULL IN 1902. THEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS.
HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS, TAKING PART IN THE BOER WAR. IN CIVILIAN LIFE HE RAN A BUSINESS OF HIS OWN IN DRYPOOL, HULL. A RESERVIST. HE WENT TO FRANCE WITH THE DRAGOON GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/08/1917, AGED 46.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 05/09/1916.
HE WAS BROTHER TO SARAH, THOMAS, MARY, ADA, WILLIAM, CHARLOTTE, LILY, SAM & JOHN.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, SAMUEL PEARSON, 26611, EYR WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/06/1917, AGED 32. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE AT 44 GREAT UNION STREET.
ANOTHER BROTHER, JOHN ROBERT PEARSON WAS KILLED IN ACTION, IN 1915, AGED 40.
DRIVER, WILLIAM PEARSON, SERVED
