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 :

Service Number: 40023
Unit: Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Rainbow
Previous service: Royal Navy
Died: 29 August 1921, Victoria, British Columbia
Buried: Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, British Columbia

He was a Petty Officer based in Halifax in 1914 when initiated into Freemasonry.

He came to Canada in 1910 and served on both HMCS Niobe (1911) and HMCS Rainbow (1 January 1918) within the Royal Canadian Navy. He died on 29 August 1921 in Esquimalt, British Columbia.

Masonic :

The names of those brethren who fell are taken from the monument formerly located in the foyer of the Masonic Hall on Barrington Street, which now resides in the banquet room of the Masonic Hall on Coronation Avenue in Halifax, NS.

He is referred to as “Alfred Thomas Peace” on the Halifax Freemason’s Hall memorial and "Alfred Thomas Pearse" in the Contribution Registers, which also annotates the date of death as "1/1/20."

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
• Researcher : Stephen Smith - Royal Standard Lodge