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Address recorded as 29 Fellowes Road, Old Fletton on the Roll of Honour. It states he died serving in the 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment attached to the 63rd Machine Gun Corps, which differs from offiial records.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest Pearson, regimental number 235265, died aged 34 on 7/3/1918 serving in the 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, attached to the 37th Company Machine Gun Corps, and is buried in grave XV.B.12 at The Huts Cemetery at Dikkebus in Belgium. They record him as the husband of May Shipp (formerly Pearson) of 29 Fellowes Road, Old Fletton, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Ernest was a native of Peterborough who was living in Old Fletton when he enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow May was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he had served in the 1/1/ Hertfordshire Regiment under regimental number 9061 before joining the Lincolnshire Regiment. Ernest's birth had been registered in Peterborough in 1884. On the 1911 census he had been aged 26, living with his parents John and Elizabeth at 2 Green Lane, Peterborough. His marriage to May Simpkin was registered in Peterborough in 1912. His widow May married Albert Shipp in 1920. Ernest's address for Probate was 29 Fellowes Road, Old Fletton; his widow was his executrix).