Service Details
Name:
 PEARCE
Given Name:
 HENRY GOOLD
Initials:
 H G
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Unit:
 171st Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1917-07-15
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Decorations:
 M C
Citations:
 LG Sup 1 January 1918 pg. 43
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry and Margaret Pearce; husband of Ina Pearce, of 77A, Nightingale Lane, Balham, London. Born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex June 1886; resided in Rhodesia prior to the outbreak of the Great War; served as a Corporal in the Northern Rhodesian Rifles, from 10.12.1914; discharged 30.4.1915 to return to the United Kingdom to take a commission in the Royal Engineers; served on the Western Front with the 171st Tunnelling Company, wounded 25.4.1917; the 171st Tunnelling Company were involved in the laying of 24 mines as part of the battle of Messine, from June 1917
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. B. 44.

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