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Son of John and Lucinda Pearce, of 150, Main St., Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Harry Norman Pearce
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
Pte. Harry Norman Pearce is remembered on the PEARCE family memorial located at St. John's (Norway) cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Norman Pearce
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
Graves Registration Report Form from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Norm Christie reports that he is the only Canadian soldier in the Becourt Military Cemetery that was not with the Canadian Field Artillery. Christie reports that he was detached from the 4th CMR at the time as a conductor on a supply train. He was accidentally killed when the engine was coupling onto a freight car (see Sacred Places Volume 2 page 84).
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
Circumstance of Death of Private Harry Pearce which confirms the information reported that he was accidentally killed while detached from the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and operating as a Conductor on a supply train.
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Private Harry Norman Pearce
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pte. Harry Norman Pearce is remembered on the PEARCE family memorial located at St. John's (Norway) cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Graves Registration Report Form from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Norm Christie reports that he is the only Canadian soldier in the Becourt Military Cemetery that was not with the Canadian Field Artillery. Christie reports that he was detached from the 4th CMR at the time as a conductor on a supply train. He was accidentally killed when the engine was coupling onto a freight car (see Sacred Places Volume 2 page 84).
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Circumstance of Death of Private Harry Pearce which confirms the information reported that he was accidentally killed while detached from the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and operating as a Conductor on a supply train.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 146 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Becourt is in the Department of the Somme, 2 kilometres on the east side of Albert. The BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY is on the south side of the road from Becourt to Albert.
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