Name
Alfred Pearl
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235259
Yorkshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, We are not aware of any memorial in Bentley Heath - see Potters Bar
Pre War
Alfred Easter Pearl was born in 1879 in Bentley Heath to James Pearl, a woodsman, and Harriet Lydia (nee Dade). Alfred would have elder brothers James (born 1863) and William (born 1864).
On the 1881 Census the family of parents, Thomas (born 1869), Lucy Ann (born 1871), Matilda (born 1874), Margaret (born 1875), Robert (born 1877) and Alfred were living at 23 Dancers Hill, South Mimms.
On the 1891 Census the family consisting of parents, Thomas, Robert, Alfred, Rose (born 1888) and Charlotte Emily (born 1884) were living at Bentley Heath.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Alfred (a domestic gardener), Rose and Charlotte were living at Bentley Heath, South Mimms, James Pearl, father of the family died in 1908.
On the 1911, Census Alfred and Charlotte were living with their widowed mother Harriet Lydia at Stratford Cotages South Mimms.
Alfred married Mildred E Soper on 5 May 1916.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Alfred. He probably enlisted in 1916 as a territorial Private 9256 in the ‘Green Howards’. The proper tile of the Regiment = Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Green Howards. Alfred would be given the number 235259 in 1917 during the renumbering of the Territorial Force.
He was posted to 7th (Service) Battalion of the regiment and in 1917 as part of 50 Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division took part in the Arras Offensive. In the Battles of the Scarpe in Apr 1917. Alfred was reported killed in action on 12 May 1917. His remains were recovered and he is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity £3 and arrears of £3 7s 11d was paid to his widow.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
