Eric Walter PEARSON

PEARSON, Eric Walter

    Service Number: 481
    Enlisted: 9 March 1915, An original of B Company
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 25th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Manly, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
    Home Town: Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Grocers assistant
    Died: Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1916
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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    World War 1 Service

    9 Mar 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 481, 25th Infantry Battalion, An original of B Company
    29 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 481, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
    29 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 481, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
    29 Jul 1916: Involvement Corporal, 481, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 481 awm_unit: 25 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-29

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    Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

    Eric served at Gallipoli from September 1915 and was killed in action at Pozieres during the taking and holding of the ridge of Pozieres on 29 July 1916. He simply went missing on this day. His 20-year-old younger brother, 69A Private Thomas Owen Pearson of the same battalion had died of wounds 3 days previous, in England, of a tetanus infection caused by severe shrapnel injuries to his legs suffered on 30 June 1916. 

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