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Auction: 24111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 982

(x) The mounted dress miniatures worn by Lieutenant E. M. Pearse, Canadian Army Medical Corps, later Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal South Africa 1901; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn, sold together with named medal envelope of issue, dog tags and silver war badge with slip of issue, good very fine

Edward Mountjoy Pearse was born at Seaton Carew, Durham on 14 September 1873, the son of Mountjoy Pearse, a builder of Iron Ships. Undertaking medical training Pearse entered Bristol Royal Infirmary on 14 May 1892 and was working there full time in 1899. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps for service in South Africa, entering the war there in 1901, a later entry in the 1910 Medical Dictionary states that he was a Civil Surgeon with the Princess Christian Hospital.

Marrying Edith Louisa Ramsey at St. Stephen's Church, Cheltenham on 3 September 1907 he is described as a Surgeon on the Wedding Bann. Moving to 4 Dean Place, Liskeard, Cornwall he became a surgeon and Anaesthetist at Liskeard Cottage Hospital.

Sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1912 he settled at Sydney, British Colombia he was commissioned Lieutenant with the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915. Posted aboard the hospital ship Valdivia he saw service in the Dardanelles that same year. His service after that point is unclear but he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps as a Captain in February 1919 and was posted to the Victoria Military Hospital where he continued to treat those injured in the conflict.

Pearce was demobilised for the final time on 17 June 1919, he was living at Nanaimo, Newcastle, British Columbia on the 1921 census. Returning to Newcastle as a retired doctor he and his wife were recorded living in Bath in 1939 and it is likely that they passed the war in that country. Travelling to Canada in 1952 Pearce died at Vancouver, British Colombia on 28 September 1960; Sold together with original riband bar and copied research.

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Sold for
£95

Starting price
£60