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Sgt. Ellis Pearson
British Army Royal Field Artillery
Ellis Pearson was born in Drax, Yorkshire in 1882. He was my great uncle and I had the privilege of living with him and my mother for several years as a small child in Leicestershire.
He was in the Royal Field Artillery and served as a Sergeant in Gallipoli where he was wounded by shrapnel and sent home to recuperate. He was in hospital for two years recovering from his wound which was to his back. Due to this injury, he had a slight stoop and walked with a stick. He married, but sadly his wife, Queenie, passed away leaving no children. She had been a red cross nurse during the war.
I remember him with great fondness. He was lovely man. He would tell me stories of his time in the war about the lice he would try to get rid of from his uniform, without much luck! The flies in the jam etc. He was sad to leave behind a particular horse he was fond of called Judy.
I have in my possession his medals, cap badge, dog tag, signet ring and cigarette case. A photograph of him in uniform, actually smiling, and many others of him in old age at the time I knew him. He died aged 78 in 1959.
