Name
Herbert Henry Pearce
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/08/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
21067
Hampshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
VIII. D. 25.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Herbert Henry Pearce (registered as Herbert Henry Wilson) was born in Berkhamsted, Herts in 1898, the son of William and Ada Pearce (nee Wilson) who married in Hemel Hempstead in 1901.
On the 1911 Census the family were living at 127 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, Sussex where his father was working as a skin dresser and Herbert was a 13 year old scholar. He had four younger sisters.
His mother's address on pension records was given as 21 Beeston Street, Portsmouth, Hants. She died in 1920.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Portsmouth and joined the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment.
He died of wounds from gas and is buried in Lijssenhoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 3s 6d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
