BORN HULL 1892. SON OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH PEARSON, AT 64 TUNIS STREET. WIFE ALICE (BUTCHER) LIVED 120 ST PAULS STREET (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. EX 13/196 EYR. SERVED WITH THE 2ND SOUTH WALES BORDERERS. KILLED IN ACTION, AT CAMBRAI, ON 21/11/1917, AGED 25. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW ALICE M. PEARSON. HE WAS BROTHER TO, HERBERT, MINNIE, JESSIE, HARRIET, EDITH AND FRANK.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 19/03/1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE CAMBRAI MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
First name:
JAMES
Regiment:
Military Number:
45157
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
21/11/1917
Place died:
Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France
Age:
25
