| Place of birth | Ballarat Victoria |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Occupation | Mine manager |
| Address | Barkly Street, Ballarat, Victoria |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 29 |
| Next of kin | Father, Isaiah Pearce, Barkly Street, Ballarat, Victoria |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | 2nd Lieutenant |
| Unit name | 21st Battalion, Headquarters |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/38/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Captain |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 21st Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 31 |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 94 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Isaiah and Anna PEARCE. Native of Ballarat, VIctoria |
| Medals |
Military Cross 'For conspicuous gallantry during opeations. He guided up the relieving troops, under heavy fire, and remained on duty the following day, after being twice wounded until he was ordered back to the aid post. He has done other fine work.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: |
| Family/military connections | Cousin: 386 Pte John PEARCE, 1st Pioneer Bn, killed in action, 25 July 1916. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Proceeded to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Gallipoli), 29 August 1915. Mentioned in Special Order of the Day as one of the volunteer party that worked the 'Southland' into port after torpedo attack, 2 September 1915. Appointed Lt, 8 October 1915. Admitted to Hospital Ship, 28 October 1915 (jaundice); transferred to Malta, 2 November 1915, and admitted to Intarfa Hospital, 19 November 1915 (scarlet fever). Rejoined Bn, Tel el Kebir, Egypt, 19 January 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 26 March 1916. Promoted Captain, 21 August 1916. Wounded in action, 24 August 1916 (gun shot wound, scapula); transferred to England, 5 September 1916, and admitted to 4th London General Hospital, Denmark Hill. Awarded the Military Cross, 15 September 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 8 January 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917. Medals: Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |