Pearson, George Newsom
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 7528
Boer War service: 24 Feb 1900 to 19 May 1901
Date of enlistment: 22 Jan 1900
Date of discharge: 27 May 1901
Reason for discharge: Not known
Other information: His brother Richard Nash Pearson also served in the Boer War. George served WW1 and further information can be found on our Great War site
Born: 6 January 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 February the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch.
Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Richard Pearson, a bank clerk, and his wife Anne, nee Newsom. He married Valentine Marie Monthelier on 30 April 1908 in Fortuna, Argentina. They had at least six children – Kathleen Beatrice, Robert Cosme, Grace Doreen and Walter Patrick all born in Paraguay, Annie Nancy born in Swanage, Dorset and Eileen Bulkeley born in Spain.
Residence: At the time of his baptism the family were living in Havannah House, Whitchurch; by 1881 they had moved to 25 St. Margaret, Leicester, Leicestershire. In 1891 they lived in Market Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Employment: He was a bank clerk when he enlisted.
Death: 25 September 1947 at the Memorial Hospital, Darlington, aged 71.
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