Albert James Pearson

A Private with the Depot, Albert died on 1st of October 1917 at the age of 21. 

Albert was born at Somerleyton in 1896, a son of Albert James and Agnes Emma Pearson. In 1901 his family lived at The Street, Somerleyton, and in 1911 at the The Green, Somerleyton, and Albert was a farm labourer. By 1917 his parents’ address was 15 The Green, Somerleyton.

Albert volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Saxmundham in October 1914. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 1490, and was posted to the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion. Subsequently he was posted to the 1/4th Battalion, in France, and then the 7th Battalion, and given the service number 43071.

At some point, probably in the autumn of 1917, Albert became unwell, and was evacuated to hospital in England. At this point he was posted to the strength of the Depot. Albert died at Horton War Hospital, Epsom.