Service Life:

Campaigns:

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

Accidents were a minor factor in the casualty list. Our definition is deaths resulting from activities that were not directly associated with 'active service'. We have excluded Naval Accidents which are seperately identified because of their numbers and impact. Many accidents involved the aviators, operating at the the limits of technology.

Detail :

HARROW Vol. III Captain Evelyn PEARSON of the 12/Kings (Liverpool Regiment) was the only son of the late Albert Harford Pearson (O.H.), Barrister-at-Law, and of Rosetta Mary Pearson. Captain Pearson originally intended to enter the Army, but was rejected on account of his eyesight. He then joined the 4th (Militia) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, with the idea of getting into the Regular Army in this way. This idea he eventually gave up and went in for Land Agency. On the outbreak of the War he applied at once for a Commission and was gazetted as Company Lieutenant in the 12th (Service) Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in September, 1914. Next month he was promoted Captain and Temporary Adjutant. He went to the Front with his Regiment in July, 1915. For a time he acted as Liaison Officer, but when the Trench Mortar Battalions were formed, he became much interested in them and was transferred to one of them. He then went as Instructor to the Trench Mortar School of the 12th Division. On January 8th, 1916, he was instructing a class when an accidental explosion took place, and he was instantaneously killed.

Probate: PEARSON, Evelyn Henry Malcolm Paterson, of The Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, London, Capt., 12th King's Regiment, died on active service, 8 January 1916, at Bethune, France, testate. Certificate endorsed by Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, 28 April, on Probate of the Will and Codicil, granted at London on 29 February 1916, to Hon. Ethel Stanhope, widow, and Thomas Kirkland Rylands, the Executors. Value of Estate, £21,549 1s. 3d.

Masonic :

His name is listed amongst nine names of Freemasons of the Province of Gloucestershire, located at Gloucester Cathedral in the Cloisters, which was reported in the Gloucester Journal 30th October 1920: "WAR MEMORIAL ERECTED IN THE CATHEDRAL. A bronze masonic memorial tablet has recently been erected in Gloucester Cathedral to the memory of Freemasons of the Province of Gloucestershire who fell in the Great War. The tablet which was designed by Mr. N.H. Waller of College Green, Gloucester, and executed by Messrs. Martyn of Cheltenham, ahs been surmounted by masonic emblems, and placed within the cuspated stone panelling of the north wall of the Cloisters- a most appropriate position in view of the fact that the north walk owes its restoration to the munificence of the Freemasons of the county-and it has been deservedly admired by all who have seen it. Nine names are recorded in the order of Lodges to which the deceased respectively belonged."

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