Personal Details Born: 20 August 1885 (this is the date on the civil birth record; the 1939 Register records 2 January 1886) in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland and was baptised there on 14 February 1886. Family: He was the eldest … 
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Personal Details Born: 7 January 1888 in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland and baptised 12 February the same year in Berwick upon Tweed. Family: He was the second of four children born to William Funnell Pearce, a postmaster, and his wife …
The British War Medal (also known as ‘Squeak’) was a silver or bronze medal awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 …
I first started visiting the Battlefields, Cemeteries and Memorials of the Western Front some fifteen years ago. Three years ago I decided to research the names on the War Memorial in Station Road, that’s all they are names, carved …
John Harry Pearce (known as Jack) was born in Welsh Frankton, Shropshire in 1899. He was the only child of Harry and Mary Pearce of Canal Side House, Blackoe, Whitchurch. When John enlisted in October 1917, he was 18 years …