PEARCE, Wilfred Ernest
| Service Number: | 2010 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Junee, New South Wales, Australia, 25 February 1886 |
| Home Town: | Coolamon, Coolamon, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2010, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 2010, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 2010, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Wilfred Ernest Pearce enlisted in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st AIF at Coolamon during January 1915. He served at the landed at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915, and was listed as missing in action at Lone Pine on 12 August 1915. Officially listed as killed in action between 7th and 12th August 1915, which was decided at a court of enquiry held in June 1916.
Local newspapers reported, ‘Private W. E. Pearce (missing) is a native of Junee, 27 years of age, and the third son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pearce, of Marrar and Cowra. Previous to enlisting he had taken up one of the Government blocks of land balloted for in the Wyalong district. He was well known in local cricketing circles.’
His brother, 6561 Private Alfred Edmond Pearce 2nd Battalion AIF was later killed in action Ypres, Belgium, 7 November 1917.
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