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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Stansbury
• Land South Australia
• Last residence Maitland, Yorkes Peninsula, South-Australia
• Family Son of Job and Margaret Pearson.
  Husband of Julia A. Pearson, of Sandilands, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
  Three sons: Rex, Howard and Glen Gardner; Howard became a Methodist minister, died in WWII, aboard the Montevideo Maru (sunk by a US submarine); the two other sons were senators in Parliament.
• Profession Farmer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 21 September 1915; Adelaide, South Australia
• Service number 4551
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 10th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Embarked Adelaide 7 February 1916; July 1916 to France

Death

• Wounded 22 September 1916; gunshot wounds abdomen
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at 17th CCS
• Died at the age of 36
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - B - 9

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