BORN BRIDLINGTON 1874. ONLY CHILD OF PETER & SUSANNA PEARCE, OF 16 MATCHELL STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED AT ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH, HULL ON 18/04/1896. HIS WIFE CHRISTIANA (RHODES) PEARCE, LIVED AT 79 NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL (HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). THEY HAD NINE CHILDREN (FIVE DAUGHTERS AND FOUR SONS) AND PREVIOUSLY LIVED AT 9 ANN’S PLACE, SYKES STREET, HULL. A HAWKER BY TRADE. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 27/11/1914, GIVING THE YOUNGER AGE OF 36 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS. HIS ARMY MEDICAL RECORDS DESCRIBED HIM AS JUST OVER 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 34-36 CHEST SIZE, 137 LBS WEIGHT, & “GOOD” PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 11/03/1916, AND JOINED THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS WOUNDED ON THE 10/07/1916, AND DIED OF WOUNDS ON 12/07/1916, AGED 42, AT THE 3RD CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 229 DAYS AND RECEIVE THE BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL. HIS EFFECTS AND WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, “CHRISTINA” WHO STLL HAD FIVE YOUNG CHILDREN TO CARE FOR.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON 08/08/1916. *
HE IS BURIED ON THE SOMME, AT PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “IN LOVING MEMORY NEVER FORGOTTEN BY HIS WIFE & CHILDREN R.I.P.”
HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S SYKES STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 09 October 1916).
