PEARCE, Clarence Harold
| Service Numbers: | 2930, 2960 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 20 April 1890 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wickham Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Shipping clerk |
| Died: | GSW head, fractured skull, 20th Casualty Clearing Station, Vignacourt, France, 9 April 1918, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2930, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2960, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2960, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
105 years ago today, on the 9th April 1918, Private Clarence Harold Pearce, 59th Battalion (Reg No-2960), shipping clerk from "Greyslan", 43 Cleary Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at 4.30 A.M. at the 20th Casualty Clearing Station, France, age 27.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 20th April 1890 to Henry (Harry) Gray (died?) and Emma Jane Pearce (born 20.2.1854, Bristol, England, died 14.10.1928, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 74), Clarence enlisted on the 18th September 1916 at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A19 Afric on the 3rd November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 8.5.1917 (trench fever).
Wounded in action - 5.4.1918 (GSW head, fractured skull, dangerously ill).
Clarence is resting at Vignacourt British Cemetery, France. Plot I Row A Grave 11.
Mr. Pearce’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Wickham (Dangar Street) Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Teralba Public School Roll of Honour, West Wallsend Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Cessnock War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Place of Association – Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
I will place poppies at the Pearce memorialised gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) F NE. 65.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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