Service Details
Name:
 PEARSE
Given Name:
 WALTER JOSIAH
Initials:
 W J
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Horse Artillery
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Unit:
 5th Bde.
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Unit 2:
 "Z" Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-09
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Date of Birth:
 1890-12-17
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, gas
Decorations:
 M C
Citations:
 LG Sup 4 June 1917 pg. 5483 - "King's Birthday Honours"
Additional
Information:
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
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
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Grave Reference:
 VI. C. 13.

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