PEARCE, Albert Herculean Augustus
| Service Number: | 638 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1916, Claremont, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, 7 May 1887 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Public School, Hobart |
| Occupation: | Builders labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 7 January 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres Plot IV, Row C, Grave 31 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 638, 40th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tasmania | |
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| 1 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 638, 40th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jul 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 638, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Hobart | |
| 7 Jan 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 40th Infantry Battalion, Killed in Action |
Two poems by Albert sent to his wife Ivy
"Though you are there and I am here and we are far apart
Affection reaches everywhere - the fond and faithful heart
And so I send this card to you, across the sundering sea,
that you may know that I am true - as you are true to me"
"We are sailing in the morning, e’er the sun up we shall start,
While the girl ashore is weeping, for the hand that brushed her heart,
But t’aint no good of crying, calling God to make me stay,
There’s bound to come the morning when a man must sail away"
Taken from Soldiers Stories
http://www.soldierswalk.org.au/Newsletters/FOSMA31%20News.pdf
Submitted 9 January 2017 by Elizabeth Allen
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Albert Herculean Augustus PEARCE was born on 7th May, 1887 in Hobart Tasmania
His parents were George PEARCE and Mary Ann FEATHERSTONE
He married Ivy Lydia Mary NELDER on 28th November, 1910 in Kokianga Parish, New Zealand and they came to Tasmania where they had two children , Albert Edward George & Ivy Annie Louisa - his wife Ivy died on 20th December, 1992 in Hobart aged 99 years - her ashes were interred in Derwent Gardens Cemetery in Tasmania
He enlisted in Claremont, Hobart on 20th March, 1916 and embarked on 1st July, 1916 from Hobart on the HMAT Berrima
Albert was Killed in Action on 7th January, 1917 in France - he is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery and his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial , he is also remembered at the Soldiers Memorial Avenue, Queens Domain in Hobart
He was awarded the British War Medal & the Victory Medal.
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His son Albert Edward George PEARCE b. 1911 in Hobart served in WW2 (SN TX1994) 2/9th Field Company - he was discharged in 1945 and died in 1988 in Hobart (Cornelian Bay Cemetery)
His daughter Ivy Annie Louisa PEARCE b. 1915 Hobart married Oscar Henry SMITH in 1942 - Oscar also served in WW1 (SN TX5958)(T30599) 5 Works Coy - Ivy died in 2006 in Swansea, Tasmania
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