William Pearce

Forenames

William AWMM

Surname

Pearce AWMM

Service number

WWI 5/894 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

5th June 1887

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Place of birth

Auckland

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Birth notes

Son of the late Alexander &.Mary Ann Pearce,

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Address before enlistment

Te Kuiti, King Country, NZ

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Next of kin

Mrs Mary Pearce (mother), Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 5/894 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Driver/Military AWMM 11th Reinforcements, Army Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Unknown AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, 3 Company AWMM

William Pearce was the son of Mary Ann Pearce, of 78 Munro St., Seatoun, Wellington, New Zealand, and the late Alexander Pearce. Native of Thames.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. Pearce, Seatoun, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Mrs Leo Doherty of the Coronation Hotel, has received advice that her brother, Private: W Pearce was killed in action on the 12th inst. Private W Pearce. left from Te Kuiti in the 11th Reinforcements, and was attached' to the Machine Gun Corps

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POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIV, ISSUE 14438, 26 OCTOBER 1917, PAGE 3

Memorial name

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20799949
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/848060/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/848060
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3656
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 24
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• The Surcingle : official organ of the Silent Sixth Rfcts, New Zealand Expdy Force. [At sea] : [Magazine Committee], 1915.