Profile

PEARCE, John Joseph Langley
(Service number 38867)

Aliases
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank	Second Lieutenant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Bank clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary Pearce (mother), 17 Fritz Street, Timaru, New Zealand [now Clifton Terrace]
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Specialist Company
Date	16 November 1917
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Liverpool, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 August 1918	Age	25
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, Somme, France
Memorial Reference	V. C. 25.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

John Pearce was the son of George and Mary Pearce, of 22 Ridlers Crescent, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand. Native of Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [28 Dec 2013]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20799921 and Item IDR7880652; Probate held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R22224616 and R22226681

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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