Private Harold Pearce
Army Number : 28399
Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Nottingham and lived at 56, Lambert Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham. Son of Albert and Kate Pearce. He was a printer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, aged 19, during the attack near Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme.
Buried: Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, France. Row F. Grave 13.
Private Harold Pearce is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Stephen’s Church War Memorial, Hyson Green Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
