Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Photo of HARRY NORMAN PEARCE – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Grave Registration Report – Graves Registration Report Form from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Norm Christie reports that he is the only Canadian soldier in the Becourt Military Cemetery that was not with the Canadian Field Artillery. Christie reports that he was detached from the 4th CMR at the time as a conductor on a supply train. He was accidentally killed when the engine was coupling onto a freight car (see Sacred Places Volume 2 page 84).

Circumstances of Death Registers – Circumstance of Death of Private Harry Pearce which confirms the information reported that he was accidentally killed while detached from the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and operating as a Conductor on a supply train.

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping

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Memorial – Pte. Harry Norman Pearce is remembered on the PEARCE family memorial located at St. John's (Norway) cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.

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