P. W. Pearce
Service no. 1432
Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 17 July 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of George Thomas and Marian Pearce, of 45 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Percy William Pearce, 14 in 1911 and working in a wheelwright’s shop, lived with his family in 5 rooms at 28 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth. He was one of eight children (one had died by 1911) of George S. Pearce, 46, a railway police constable from Godalming, Surrey, and his wife Marian Pearce, 46, from South Lambeth. Six children were at home on the night of the census: Ethel E. Pearce, 19, a waitress; Alfred G. H. Pearce, 17, a junior clerk; Percy W. Pearce, 14, Charles J. Pearce, 12; Cecil E. H. Pearce, 9; Louis E. W. Peace, 6. All the children were born in South Lambeth. Augustus Chaddock, a 60-year-old retired man from Westminster, boarded with the family. The Pearces were evidently very attached to Tradescant Road – they were there in 1901, at Number 34.