Army Number: 4626

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of George and Hannah Pearson, of 24, North Street, Cromford, Matlock, Derbyshire. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 31, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Derbyshire Courier 19th August 1916

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row L. Grave 36.