No.14372, Private, Horace John PEARSON
Aged 19
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Horace Pearson was born in 1896 in Stetchworth (Newmarket Q4-1896 3B:512), son of Clemence and Henrietta Julia PEARSON (née HAMMOND).
1901 census...Aged 4, he was at Mill Road, Stetchworth with his father Clemence PEARSON [30] a carpenter, born Thetford; his mother Henrietta Julia [34] born Sawston and brother Harry [7] born Dullingham. 1911 census...Aged 14, he was at Tea Kettle Lane, Mill Road, Stetchworth with his parents and brother Harry (now a gamekeeper). The pension card has his parents at Station Road, Dullingham.
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He enlisted in Newmarket. The 8th Suffolks were in the Bray-Carmnoy area late in June 1916. Between 23rd-27th they made a couple of raids, neither very effective except for gaining some information, but sustaining a few casualties. Smoke screens were being deployed at this time. 6 were killed on the 26th, four buried in Carnoy and 2 named on the Thiepval Memorial. |
old cemetery photo; Pierre Vandervelden www.inmemories.com
photo: Rodney Gibson
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