Cecil James Pearse

Service number: 1260

Rank: Trooper

Unit: 7th Light Horse

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Cecil Pearse was born at Rockdale in 1892 and was a carrier. He enlisted on 25 April 1915, giving as next of kin his mother, at Carrington, Sydney Road, Manly.

He served in the Middle East with the 7th Light Horse. He was hospitalised on several occasions with ulcers, VD and a fractured thumb.

He returned to Australia on the Madras on 28 June 1919.