THE  DOVER WAR MEMORIAL  PROJECT

Service Record Notes

PEARCE, GEORGE THOMAS

Pension Record.
Army Reserve.
One Years Service.
Attestation Of
No.172. George Thomas Pearce. The Buffs.
 
George Thomas Pearce.
St. Johns (St. James?)
Dover, Kent.
Age, 39
Occ. Blacksmith.
Previously served in The Buffs Volunteers.
Born in Dover.
 
Enlisted August 28^th 1914 at Canterbury.
 
Joined at Canterbury 28/8/14.
The Buffs D. Attested Pte. 28/8/14.
Granted mess office 28/8/16.
3^rd Appointed, Posted L/Cpl.22/9/14.
Appointed A/Cpl. 31/7/15.
Appointed A/L/Sgt. 12/12/15.
 
Discharged. No longer physically fit for war service, 2/6/16. 
 
Home 28/4/14 to 2/6/16.
Died 4/10/18. Buried St. Mary’s Cemetery.
 
To Whom Married.
Ellen Jane Horton – Spinster – October 27^th 1900 at Deal.
 
Children.
Evelyn Nellie. April 21^st 1902. Dover.
Dorothy May. April 6^th 1905. Dover.
Percival George. July 26^th 1906. Dover.
Winifred Florence. February 10^th 1909.
Lilian Selina. February 22^nd 1911.
Ivy. 9^th April 1915. Dover.
 
Copy of Death Certificate.
25^th April 1915. 5, Union Row Dover - Ivy Pearce – Female – Age 14 days – Daughter of George Thomas Pearce – Lance Corporal East Kent Regiment, 3^rd Battalion (Admiralty Labourer) - Premature Birth – G. T. Pearce father present at the death, 5, Union Row, Dover.  
 
Cause of Discharge. Medically Unfit. Bronchitis (Chronic). May 4^th 1916.
Date of origin – November 9^th 1916.
Place of Origin – Rowtham, Kent.
Whilst attending a course of field pioneering at Rowtham, he developed a cough and shortness of breath. He returned to Dover in December 1915, and was admitted to Western Heights Hospital with pleurisy.
Cause – ordinary military service and result of exposure to wet and cold.
Permanent.
 8^th August 1917. Latest address, Keycol Hill, Sanatorium, Bobbing, Nr. Sittingbourne, Kent.