Name
Cyril John Pearce
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Not Found
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wheathampstead Village Memorial, Folly Methodist Chapel Window, Wheathampstead
Pre War
Cyril John was born in 1892 in the Folly, Wheathampstead to Ellen, also known as Nellie, Pearce.
On the 1901 Cyril and his mother were living with her parents William and Sarah Pearce. William Pearce had been a butcher, baker and grocer in the Folly. Ellen (or Nellie) had worked as an assistant in the shop. On the 1911 Cyril was working as Clerk with a Tourist Agent and living with his mother and aunt Alice Maud at the Folly,Luton Road, Wheathampsted.
Wartime Service
Cyril attested for the Hertfordshire Yeomanry (Territorial Force) as Private 1775 on 2 Sep 1914. He was appointed Corporal on 30 Oct 1915. Cyril went to Egypt to Join 1/1 Herts Yeomanry on 5 Nov 1914. Cyril was involved in the deployment of the Yeomanry Division to Gallipoli landing on the night of 17/18 Aug 1915 and fighting at Suvla Bay, Scimitar Hill and ‘W’ Hill. Cyril returned to Egypt with the withdrawal of Troops from Suvla on 19/20 Dec 1915. He returned to UK on 14 Apr 1916 for treatment at Netley Hospital Southampton for Pulmonary tuberculosis contracted at Suvla . He was appointed Sergeant on 10 Jan 1916 and discharged from Service as Medically Unfit on 3 Jun 1916. Cyril died on 3 Oct 1916.
His name was added to the Wheathampstead Village war memorial in 2014 although he was technically not a soldier at the time of his death.
Biography
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £8 10s was paid to his mother. (Arrears of pay would have been paid on Discharge from Service.) Not listed in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
