The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A E Pearce

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private Albert Edward PEARCE, G/21204, Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, (gun shot wound face & head), 83 (Dublin) General Hospital, Boulogne, France, 28th April 1918, age 34.

Born Hackney, Middlesex, son of Walter and Elizabeth Pearce.

1911 Census - 28 Briton Road, Faversham, Kent - William Hills, head, age 49, married, carpenter & joiner, own account, born Faversham, Kent; Elizabeth Ann Hills, wife, age 44, married 22 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Faversham, Kent; Clarence Alfred Hills, son, age 19, single, butcher, worker, born Faversham, Kent; Bertram Roland Hills, son, age 15, single, grocer, worker, born Faversham, Kent; May Hilda Hills, daughter, age 4, born Faversham, Kent; Albert Edward Pearce, boarder, age 26, single, tailor (maker), worker, born Hackney, London, Essex.

4th? June? 1913, married Louisa Claretta Pyne, spinster, 2 Eastfield / Heathfield Road, Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Children - Kathleen Blanche Pearce, born *15th November 1915, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Sevenoaks, Kent, age 31 years & 7 months, height 5ft 6½ inches. Resided 2 Eastfield / Heathfield Road, Riverhead, Kent. Formerly tailor.

Home 10th December 1915 to 22nd September 1917; BEF 23rd September 1917 to 28th April 1918.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 10th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 8th May 1916, rejected by Medical Board as unfit; 8th February 1917, mobilized; 12th February 1917, posted 2/4th Battalion, The Buffs; 23rd September 1917, disembarked; 24th September 1917, Etaples, 38 Infantry Base Depot; 26th September 1917, transferred to 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st October 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 14th November 1917, proceeded to Italy; 2nd March 1918, to France.

11th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Louisa Pearce, 2 Heathfield Road, Riverhead; Children - Kathleen Pearce, born *15th November 1916; Father, none; Mother, none; Brothers - William John Pearce, age 39, 106 Chesterton Road, North Kensington, London W10; Sisters - Emily Coleman, age 44, 118 High Street, Wandsworth, London. *Pension Records & Birth Index shows year of birth as 1915.

4th? October? 1918?, pension of 20/5 a week awarded to widow and one child.

Buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, IX. A. 55., France.

NOTE: Regimental History and Soldiers Died in the Great War both show rank as Private; CWGC web site shows rank as Corporal.

This page was last updated on 16-Apr-2026.