- First Name(s):Albert
- Surname:PEARSON
- Service Number:DM231400
- Rank:
Private
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Support Services
- Corps:Royal Army Service Corps
- Unit:272nd Mechanical Transport Company attached 1st Anzac Corps Heavy Artillery
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:21st October 1917
- Age At Death:30
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XXV. J. 11.
- Place of Birth:Unknown
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of the late John and Elizabeth Pearson, 7 Bald’s Lane, Wollescote, Stourbridge; husband of Gladys Marjorie Smalley (formerly Pearson), 12 Cross Walk, Wollescote, Stourbridge
PEARSON Albert Is Named On These Memorials
Further Information About PEARSON Albert
Albert Pearson enlisted in the Army Service Corps and was sent to the 272nd Mechanical Transport Company. By mid-1917 this unit was attached to the Heavy Artillery of the 1st Army for the Third Battle of Ypres. Heavy guns required a great deal of transport to function in battle. They were also vulnerable to enemy counter-battery shelling which the German forces performed accurately. Private Albert Pearson was seriously wounded at some point and taken to a Casualty Clearing Station near Poperinghe where he died on the 21st October 1917.


