John Frederick PEARCE

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PEARCE, John Frederick

Service Number:	5404
Enlisted:	12 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Wandering, Western Australia, 9 July 1896
Home Town:	Wagin, Wagin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Typhoid Fever, Yarloop, Western Australia, 14 October 1925, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Cookernup Cemetery, Harvey Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Memorials:	Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Wagin Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

12 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
17 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
17 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Aeneas, Fremantle
10 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
19 Oct 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), embarked England for Fremantle on HT Port Lyttleton
24 Dec 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5404, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private John Frederick Pearce (Service No:5404) served three years in Cadets before enlisting in the AIF on 12 January 1916, and was attached to 16th Infantry Battalion on 17 April 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Marseilles via Alexandria on board HMAT A60 Aeneas. Private Pearce was WiA in France on 10 August 1916 (shell shock), and embarked from England on 19 October 1917 on board HT Port Lyttleton. Private Pearce was attached to 16th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 24 December 1917 (Medically Unfit).

John (registered John Frederick Strange) was born in Wandering, Western Australia in 1896, only child of Pharoah Richard Strange (b1852 in York, Western Australia) and Emily Woods (b1882 in Beverley, Western Australia). In 1899 in Wandering, Western Australia Emily married John Charles Stephen Pearce (b1865 in Fremantle, Western Australia). John Snr and Emily had six children together, and lived in Coaling, Waroona, Ballaying, Wagin, Pingelly and Perth where they raised their family and John Snr was a Labourer and Railway Worker.

John worked as a Grocer in Perth and Wagin, and was a member of the Wagin Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. In 1922 in Fremantle John married Gladys May Gulvin Hollands (b1899 in Kent, England) - Gladys had immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1911, arriving in Fremantle on board the Osterley. John and Gladys settled at Nanga Brook via Yarloop, where they raised their family and John was a Timber Worker and First Aid Man, and member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. John died of Typhoid Fever in Yarloop Hospital in 1925. Gladys, a Widow with two small daughters, remarried in 1927.

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