PEARCE, Augustine Kinsman
| Service Number: | 4823 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lauriston, Victoria, Australia, 17 January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Daylesford, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Daylesford State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 21 September 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Poelcapelle British Cemetery Plot LX, Row A, Grave No. 18. HE WILL LIVE IN MY MEMORY FOR EVER |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Daylesford War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4823, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4823, 21st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4823, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 21 Sep 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 4823, 21st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4823 awm_unit: 21st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-09-21 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Daylesford Advocate, 12 October 1917.
CORPORAL A. K. PEARCE PASSES.
On Tuesday, the relatives of Corporal A. K. (Gus) Pearce, a young soldier from Daylesford, received official information that he had been killed on the 21st of September in action at the war front in France.
“….Corporal Pearce served articles in the Kyneton ‘Advocate’ office, as a compositor, and on the attainment of his 21st birthday, on the 17th of January, 1916, at once enlisted, this having been his third attempt to join the colours. He sailed in the “Euripides”, on April the 3rd of the same year, and went first to Egypt, and then to England, and embarked from the latter country on the night of November 1916, for France. From then until his death, he took part in all the big “stunts” at the front. He gained a Lance-Corporal's stripe whilst camped on Salisbury Plains and his corporal's badge on the battlefield on the 1st of June last. He was a native of Lauriston and was only six years of age when the family came to Daylesford. He was educated at Daylesford State School. He was for five years employed on the “Advocate”, and was very bright, intelligent and capable, being a great favourite with all of the staff. He was very popular amongst all who knew him and was a very fine type of all that was good, honourable and upright.”
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