Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Horse Artillery
Division:
Z Bty. 5th Bde.
Enlistment:
Kamloops, British Columbia
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. C. 13.
Memorial:
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Additional information
Son of E. T. W. and May C. Pearse, of Kamloops, British Columbia.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
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Photo of Walter Josiah Pearse
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: McGill Daily October 1, 1917 -
War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 15, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y108uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Walter Josiah Pearse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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