Notes
The Roll lists his address as 7 Rock Road.
(CWGC records that Private Henry Pearson, regimental number 18769, died on 25/9/1915 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Loos Memorial in France. His Medal Index Card records that Henry was sent to France on 4/8/1915, and that his medals were issued to his sister Mabel Pearson of 7 Rock Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Sr Paul's parish in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his sister Mabel was his legatee. Henry's birth was registered in Peterborough in 1889. On the 1891 census he and his sister Mabel were living with their parents Elizabeth and John R Pearson in Harris Street in Peterborough. On the 1911 census Henry was boarding at 39 Manvers Road, Beighton near Sheffield, working as a railway porter; his parents were living at 2 Green Lane, Peterborough. On 9/10/1915 the Peterborough Advertiser announced that a friend (Private Mills) had written to Henry's mother at Rock Road to inform her that her son had been killed. In that report, Henry was stated to have been "employed in the Great Central Railway Regiment last May, having previously served three years in the old Peterborough Engineers Volunteers").