Leonard Pearson

Private. 267830. 1/4th Battalion. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

Born 1882.

Son of Ann and the late Frederick Joseph a Stone Mason.

Brother of James Edward, Martha Ann b.1878, Ada b. 1881, Ethel b. 1884 and Rose b. 1887.

Address: 4 Scar Bottom, Milnsbridge.

Occupation: Stone Mason's labourer.

Enlisted in 1915.

Killed in action: 26th April 1918. Aged 36.

Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial panel 82 to 85 and 162A.

This memorial to the missing holds 34,948 names and lies 9km north of leper (Ypres) town

centre.

Leonard's father died in 1887 at the age of 33, and is buried at Golcar. Leonard was only 5 years old at the time, he was the second eldest child and his baby sister Rose had just been born. It must have been a difficult childhood with his mother struggling to raise her family alone.

His name appears on the Roll of Honour at St. John's Church, Golcar.