In Memory Of

PEARSE, WALTER JOSIAH

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 1890-12-17
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 5th Bde.
Unit 2:
 "Z" Bty.
Regiment:
 Royal Horse Artillery
Date of Death:
 1917-04-09
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, gas
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 VI. C. 13.
Cemetery:
 ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Decorations:
 M C
Citations:
 LG Sup 4 June 1917 pg. 5483 - "King's Birthday Honours"
Son of E. T. W. and May C. Pearse, of Kamloops, British Columbia. Rhodes Scholar. Arts student 1908-11 McGill University, Montreal. McGill Rhodes Scholar to Oxford, 1911. Commissioned December 11, 1914 as 2nd Lieutenant in Royal Horse Artillery. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918