Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Post War includes all operations in all theatres up to 31st August 1921. This excludes the campaign in Russia against the Bolsheviks. It also includes men who succombed to wounds post war and who died from various causes whilst still in the services but post war.

Detail :

De Ruvigny's Volume 5 - "MEARS, FRANCIS PEEL, Capt., Royal Army Service Corps, eldes s. of the late T. Lambert Mears, M.A., LL.D., of Regent's Park, N.W., Barrister-at-law, by his wife, Alice Catherine, dau, of I.H. Westcar Peel; b. London, 31 May 1876; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery; served some time, and was invalided out of the Service in 1904; took Holy Orders the same year; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted Lieut. A.S.C. in 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and subsequently in Macedonia; returned home in April 1918, and proceeded to Ireland, where he served until he died at King George V, Military Hospital, Dublin, 22 Feb. 1919, of Macedonian malaria and pneumonia, contracted whilst on active service. Buried in Sydenham, S.E. He m. in 1902, Mabel Fitzroy, dau. of Dr. Ellis, and had a son, Francis Ronald Lambert, b. in 1903."

Masonic :

Past Provincial Grand Chaplain. Joined Lodge of St. John and St. Paul, Malta on the 1st November 1913.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley