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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 275

The Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque awarded in memory of Private W. F. Pearce, 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of his wounds behind enemy lines as a German prisoner of war

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Walter Frank Pearce), polished, about very fine

Walter Frank Pearce was born in 1894 in Reading, where he enlisted with the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 17 November 1915. He joined the 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment in France in 1916, and moved up to Bazentin with his unit that September. The men were employed carrying ammunition and bombs from Bazentin to the front line, often done over open ground and under shell fire. Many men were killed or wounded, and at some point Pearce was wounded and taken a prisoner of war by the enemy. He died of his wounds as a German captive on 21 September 1916, only 22 years old, less than a week before they were relieved. He was interred in the Porte-de-Paris Cemetery in Cambrai, alongside other soldiers who died as prisoners; sold together with copied research and negatives of Pearce's headstone and the graves at Porte-de-Paris Cemetery.

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