BORN ST JAMES, HULL 1892. SON OF FRANCES & ELIZABETH PEARSON, OF REETON, SCARBOROUGH. A PORTER. HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 5TH JANUARY 1911.
ENLISTED SCARBOROUGH. SERVED WITH THE 20TH HUSSARS. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 16/08/1914. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 20/11/1914, AGED 22, AT CLYTTE, BELGIUM. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH AND SISTER, MARY, E.
First name:
JAMES EDWIN
Regiment:
Military Number:
6660
Rank:
Private
Date Died
20/11/1914
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
22
