Reginald Charles Pearce

Memorial: Tytherington - St James's Church

Regiment: Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

Parents: Herbert and Catherine Pearce

Home address: Mill Farm, Tytherington, Glos

Pre-war occupation: Farm Labourer

Date of birth: 1895

Place of birth: Alveston, Bristol

Date of death: 21/08/1925

Buried/Commemorated at: Tytherington

Further information:

Reginald Pearce was born in Alveston to parents, Herbert Charles and Catherine Ann Pearce. He was brother to Olivia, Lionel and George at Mill Farm, Tytherington.

Reginald Pearce joined the Old Down Troop of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Royal Hussars in 1914 and saw active service early on in the war in Gallipoli and took part in other Eastern Campaigns.
After being home in hospital for enteric, TB related to his war wounds, he was drafted out East again remaining until the war ended.

On being invalided out of the Army he went to live with relatives in Australia to see if the climate would prove beneficial to his lung problem. Sadly it did not and he returned home dying unexpectedly on 21st August 1925.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Tytherington Roots